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Computing | Dumpster diving /dump'-ster di:'-ving/ n. 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 organize 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 favorite 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. Source: Jargon File. |
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When corporations became aware of the need for increased security (in the early 1990s), sensitive documents were shredded before being placed in dumpsters.
The term is also used for the retrieving of useful items (not necessarily computer-related) from dumpsters, trash cans, curbsides, or similar places where discarded items can be found. This is usually done in order to acquire the items at no cost. Dumpster diving is illegal in some parts of the United States, though in many places the relevant laws do not seem to be very vigorously enforced. Similarly in the UK, though diving is, in theory, theft, there is very little enforcement; many people hate to see useful things being discarded, and British television shows have even featured home renovations and decoration using dived materials. Changing Rooms is one such show, broadcast on BBC 1.
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
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dumpster diving | 106 |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "d-d-e-g-i-i-m-n-p-r-s-t-u-v" | |
-4 letters: disrupting, disruptive, misprinted, punditries, springtide, springtime. | |
-5 letters: depriving, despiting, detruding, disputing, disrupted, distingue, disunited, diverting, divesting, grumpiest, impingers, imprinted, imprudent, impugners, intrigued, intrigues, intrusive, misdriven, misguided, misguider, mustering, permuting, premising, presiding, presidium, presuming, prevising, priesting, reduviids, respiting, rudiments, simpering, supermind, supermini, unvisited, vestigium, vesturing. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)44 55 4D 50 53 54 45 52 44 49 56 49 4E 47 |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000100 01010101 01001101 01010000 01010011 01010100 01000101 01010010 00100000 01000100 01001001 01010110 01001001 01001110 01000111 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)D U M P S T E R   D I V I N G |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0044 0055 004D 0050 0053 0054 0045 0052 0044 0049 0056 0049 004E 0047 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)38554750535439522384356434841 |
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