New submitter socheres (1771002) writes I keep a Slackware server hosted at various datacenters on leased hardware for personal / freelance business use. I have been doing this for the last 10 years and during this time I moved my stuff to several datacenters, some small and some big name companies. No matter the hosting company, since I choose to install my own OS and not take a pre-installed machine, I always got the hardware delivered with the previous guys' data stored on the hard drives. It was also the case with spare drives, which were not installed new if I did not ask specifically for new ones. Has this happened to you? How often?

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Shades of the recent arrest based on child porn images flagged by Google in an email, mrspoonsi writes A tip-off from Microsoft has led to the arrest of a man in Pennsylvania who has been charged with receiving and sharing child abuse images. It flagged the matter after discovering that an image involving a young girl had been allegedly saved to the man's OneDrive cloud storage account. According to court documents, the man was subsequently detected trying to send two illegal pictures via one of Microsoft's live.com email accounts. Police arrested him on 31 July.

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With fighting in Arsal, Lebanon is feared to be the next target of the Islamic State.

With fighting in Arsal, Lebanon is feared to be the next target of the Islamic State.

220 FN-anställda och hjälparbetare har evakuerats från nordöstra Sydsudan sedan en milis dödat sex hjälparbetare, uppger en FN-talesman. Våldet mot biståndsinsatsen förvärrar landets katastrofala svälthot.

220 FN-anställda och hjälparbetare har evakuerats från nordöstra Sydsudan sedan en milis dödat sex hjälparbetare, uppger en FN-talesman. Våldet mot biståndsinsatsen förvärrar landets katastrofala svälthot.

Branden i Västmanland kunde begränsas något under onsdagen men räddningstjänsten bävar inför torsdagens värme och vind. Många evakuerade är fortfarande i chock. SvD har träffat paret Nyberg som hann undan elden med en hårsmån.

Branden i Västmanland kunde begränsas något under onsdagen men räddningstjänsten bävar inför torsdagens värme och vind. Många evakuerade är fortfarande i chock. SvD har träffat paret Nyberg som hann undan elden med en hårsmån.

Wearing of headscarves and niqabs also banned from public buses for security reasons in city in Muslim-majority region.