Man Finds Divorce Papers, Tax Docs On "New" Laptop 218
An anonymous reader writes "25-year-old Hidayat Sudirman found that his new laptop came loaded with more than just the usual software, it also contained 10GB of someone else's documents. From the article: "A buyer on the lookout for a new laptop got more than he bargained for at his local computer fair when the 'new' device came loaded with over 10GB of personal documents — including divorce papers and tax returns."
You gets what you pays for . . . (Score:5, Insightful)
1 - The seller got his hand on a bunch of identical, lightly-used machines and decided to resell 'em as "new". Creep.
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2 - The seller imaged a bunch of boxes from a used machine (with the end in view of not having to register/activate multiple copies of Windows) - i.e., the seller is pushing a pirated version of Windows with his new machines. Creep.