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Personal Computer Privacy: Analysis for Korean PC Users

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Advances in Information and Computer Security (IWSEC 2006)

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Abstract

In this paper, we introduce our own two-year experiments to acquire sensitive personal information from discarded hard disks which we had obtained with no ease in Korean second-hand PC markets. With careful scanning, we found that most of hard disks were not adequately cleaned, and had a plenty of confidential and sensitive personal data, which could be utilized in crimes like identity theft. Collected private data, analyzed based on the concept of identifiable individual, amounted to 4,526 persons worth of data, including 3,584 resident registration numbers. The result also indicated that discovered data items of each person were revealed to display a wide spectrum of sensitivity level.

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  1. Graduate School of Management, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology(KAIST), 207-43 Cheongryang, Dongdaemun, Seoul, 130-722, Korea

    Young Chul Kwon, Sang Won Lee & Songchun Moon

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  1. Faculty of Electro-Communication, The University of Electro-Communications, 1-5-1, Chofugaoka, P.O. Box, 182-8585, Chofu, Japan

    Hiroshi Yoshiura

  2. Department of Computer Science, Communication Engineering, Kyushu University, 812-0053, Fukuoka, Japan

    Kouichi Sakurai

  3. Institute of Business Informatics, Goethe University Frankfurt, Frankfurt/Main, Germany

    Kai Rannenberg

  4. Faculty of Software and Information Science, Iwate Prefectural University, 152-52 Sugo, Takizawa, Takizawa-mura, 020-0193, Iwate, Japan

    Yuko Murayama

  5. Toshiba Corporation, 1, Komukai Toshiba-cho, Saiwai-ku, P.O. Box, 212-8582, Kawasaki, Japan

    Shinichi Kawamura

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Kwon, Y.C., Lee, S.W., Moon, S. (2006). Personal Computer Privacy: Analysis for Korean PC Users. In: Yoshiura, H., Sakurai, K., Rannenberg, K., Murayama, Y., Kawamura, S. (eds) Advances in Information and Computer Security. IWSEC 2006. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4266. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11908739_6

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