On 17-May-06 Adam Bower wrote:
Although, data leakage is an interesting problem given that my "new" camera turned up today from Watford Electronics/Savastore.com which was supposed to have "missing or damaged packaging" as soon as I got it I suspected something was wrong and ran Photorec ( http://www.cgsecurity.org/photorec.html ) on it and found that the previous owner had recorded a picture of his/her baby and a very short video of their baby attacking the packaging of the camera.
Reminds me of the time (bearly 15 years ago now) when I wandered into a Dixon's looking around for a fax machine.
Saw what looked like a good one on offer -- "Display Model". Had a look at it, seemed OK, bought it.
When I got it home and was setting it up, I saw that it had a phone number on it (as the number it gives out for "Fax From"). So I rang that number and found its previous owner, who had returned it "because it didn't work".
In fact the reason it didn't work was that the transparent platen through which the document is scanned was stained with streaks of Typex (? Tippex). Where had that come from?
Well, above previous owner had been through the same experience as me -- found a number on it and phoned it, and found himself talking to the previous previous owner who'd also taken it back for some reason! Hadn't sussed out the problem though.
Once I cleaned the platen it worked fine, and works fine still!
Not to mention a guy who posted a Word doc as an attachment to a mailing list I'm on. You can usually get the gist of a Word doc by running 'strings' on it. But then you get all textual material in the file, not just what Word would show you if you opened it in Word. In this case there was a residue from some previous version which included an embarrassing excerpt from an exchange with the Police ... Beware Fast Save!!!
Best wishes to all, Ted.
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