PSA to wipe your family’s or company’s devices before you leave them at Goodwill because I will without fail buy them and stick them in my house I don’t even know what a warranty is
Oh boy, new Apple TV WITH SOMEONES ICLOUD LOGGED IN thirtlllllhghffgdguutcc
@hacks4pancakes I feel like you're rolling the dice between hilarious inadvertant corporate espionage and risking seeing unwanted nudes

@hacks4pancakes this is why we cannot have nice things.

Because you have our things

@hacks4pancakes

Is it really logged in or just a Defcon hacker trying to get your password?

@hacks4pancakes even though I know you're long past the point in your life where you might think of doing something other than logging them out, I'm still gonna say it for shits and giggles:

Now, now, Lesley. Don't do anything I wouldn't do! 😜​

@hacks4pancakes how did it go with that latest laptop find? anything noteworthy? ☕️
@hacks4pancakes Same applies if people leave computers or other electronics on the curb. I had to wipe the hard drive of an old Dell desktop because it contained sensitive tax documents on it. People don't seem to understand that bad people will take advantage in these situaitons....😩​
@hacks4pancakes you never experienced any data corruption with second hands ? RAID set up ? I am always a bit paranoid about faulty drives 😅
@certainlytwice I just fix whatever is broken and I’d never reuse a drive
@hacks4pancakes ah ok I did interpret your message about wiping the other way 😅
@hacks4pancakes They are a great source of ‘example data’ and ‘standard config images’ 🤤
@hacks4pancakes Remember the days of buying hard drives at Goodwill?
@hacks4pancakes and make sure those Apple devices are unlocked so people can reuse them instead of throwing them away.
@hacks4pancakes Also a timely reminder to wipe your rental car before handing it back, unless you feel like sharing your address book with the next driver...
@hacks4pancakes I don’t know. It’s kind of fun buying unwanted IoT equipment. Who knows when my living room lights will come on or turn off? How will the weather indoors be today? It adds some variety to life. #sarcasm
@hacks4pancakes I have a stack of old laptops laying around explicitly because I haven't yet wiped them. Thing is, they've been sitting around for so many years now and wiping them is like priority none, so I'm tempted to donate them anyway. Maybe I'll just yank the drives and shred them instead...
@hacks4pancakes Bought a Dell R730 server from Goodwill. Still had the contact information for the Florida Department of Health in the iDRAC.
@hacks4pancakes I do this for all my friends -- I upgrade them, take their old machines, wipe the drives (or remove them entirely as part of an upgrade) and pass them along. I've got two tablets, two PCs, and four old routers (that are getting reflashed with OpenWRT) that will be handed off to kids for back-to-school this year.