Dumb

[NotAllThere]

Can be nice when people cock up.

That's why companies who offshore can be quite good sources of work after a while.

[xoggoth]

Can be nice when people cock up. Once somebody managed to delete part of a simulation I had worked on, and I got my best paid contract recreating it.

[Protagoras]

Nothing in the article about what happened to the students.

As for the "computer forensics student", really?

One might think that students of computer forensics would check USB sticks in an offline device, wipe and reformat before passing on :-)

[sadkingbilly]

I routinely scan the metadata for CVs sent to me when I'm hiring.

You can glean some fascinating stuff.

so you now know ALL about your gardener/cook/butler then ???

[NotAllThere]

I routinely scan the metadata for CVs sent to me when I'm hiring.

You can glean some fascinating stuff.

[SueEllen]

I can't believe they are were so dumb

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/...rrer=deep-link

Dagnall told BBC Radio Merseyside it came after a computer forensics student submitted coursework on a USB pen drive and the lecturer spotted some other folders on it.
The academic discovered the previous owner of the pen drive had inadvertently copied a host of files on to it.

Dagnall explained: "Within that folder were other students' names, their coursework and exams they were sitting, dates... and some monetary values."

There were even personal login credentials on the files.