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What is Data Dumpster Diving? Data dumpster diving is a common tactic used by hackers and thieves. They sift through the trash of others in hopes of discovering confidential personal and corporate information. This tactic is often the first used in a serious intrusion because going through the trash is a simple process compared to penetrating a firewall, deploying Trojans, stealing passwords, etc… to get the same information. Hackers know that people are the weakest link in the security chain and it only takes one person to improperly and illegally dump sensitive documents in the trash to hand over a...