{"id":1167,"date":"2019-04-10T06:00:38","date_gmt":"2019-04-10T11:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tech2.mountdesales.net\/?p=1167"},"modified":"2019-04-09T11:19:24","modified_gmt":"2019-04-09T16:19:24","slug":"why-would-someone-hack-my-old-pc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tech.mountdesales.net\/?p=1167","title":{"rendered":"Why would someone hack my old PC?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

There is potentially a lot of useful \/ sellable info on that old PC that you haven’t used in a while.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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What your old hacked PC can be used for by the “bad guys”<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

This is from https:\/\/krebsonsecurity.com\/2012\/10\/the-scrap-value-of-a-hacked-pc-revisited\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

There’s a lot of bad actors online, but there are indeed things you can do to be safer. Watch the tech site for more articles, coming soon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There is potentially a lot of useful \/ sellable info on that old PC that you haven’t used in a while. This is from https:\/\/krebsonsecurity.com\/2012\/10\/the-scrap-value-of-a-hacked-pc-revisited\/ There’s a lot of bad actors online, but there are indeed things you can do to be safer. 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