資料來源 : Free On-Line Dictionary of Computing
dumpster diving
/dump'-ster di:'-ving/ 1. The practice of sifting refuse from
an office or technical installation to extract confidential
data, especially security-compromising information ("dumpster"
is an Americanism for what is elsewhere called a "skip").
Back in AT&T's monopoly days, before paper shredders became
common office equipment, phone phreaks (see {phreaking}) used
to organise regular dumpster runs against phone company plants
and offices. Discarded and damaged copies of AT&T internal
manuals taught them much. The technique is still rumored to
be a favourite of crackers operating against careless targets.
2. The practice of raiding the dumpsters behind buildings
where producers and/or consumers of high-tech equipment are
located, with the expectation (usually justified) of finding
discarded but still-valuable equipment to be nursed back to
health in some hacker's den. Experienced dumpster-divers not
infrequently accumulate basements full of moldering (but still
potentially useful) cruft.
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