Have any of you guys gone Dumpster Diving?

[Killeramor]

I did it all the time, at my pc repair job. Got all my external hds and laptops and pcs that way. (Ever look in my pc room I have about 10 Pentiums in the floor that work.)
I used to dumpster dive and get food and toys all the time when I was younger. I found a whole box of expensive chocolate a Dillards threw out. It was boxed and still wrapped. mmmm chocolate. Hell if I see something valuable on the side of the road, or in a dumpster i am taking it. I work 3 jobs and live have around 1400$ a month in bills. I total an amount of about 1200 a month. I think me working my life away and hours for pretty much nothing while still going in debt kind of kills the humiliating factor of free stuff.

[Nortcele]

Fairs

[Killeramor]

Heres a Pic of the stuff I got out of dumpster. all computers, monitors, and laptops were in the dumpster.

[Nortcele]

Photo looks like its 10 years old aha

[iTpHo3NiX]

I've scored many things dumpster diving, actually had a little business going. When I was younger at all the goodwill donation station we would go at night (family event, we called "good will hunting") and people would dump donations/garbage, and it even said no dumping so we were doing a community service taking the stuff. We would turn around and have a yard sale every week. Recently I was working security at a expensive ass condo complex, scored a set of nice leather chairs because one of the legs broke on 1 of the chairs and they threw the set of 4. I also got a 23" Asus HD monitor (LCD) just no cables, but fuck I had a power cable and dvi so now I have dual monitors, for free. I've picked up a lot of computer components and mobos. Not to mention the amount of data that could be found. I also learned that Walmart throws out opened returned electronics and have gotten iPods, iPads, cell phones, printers, home phones, and even a laptop. Nothing humiliating about it.

[shadowwolf87]

I've scored many things dumpster diving, actually had a little business going. When I was younger at all the goodwill donation station we would go at night (family event, we called "good will hunting") and people would dump donations/garbage, and it even said no dumping so we were doing a community service taking the stuff. We would turn around and have a yard sale every week. Recently I was working security at a expensive ass condo complex, scored a set of nice leather chairs because one of the legs broke on 1 of the chairs and they threw the set of 4. I also got a 23" Asus HD monitor (LCD) just no cables, but fuck I had a power cable and dvi so now I have dual monitors, for free. I've picked up a lot of computer components and mobos. Not to mention the amount of data that could be found. I also learned that Walmart throws out opened returned electronics and have gotten iPods, iPads, cell phones, printers, home phones, and even a laptop. Nothing humiliating about it.

I did not know that about walmart. I'll have to go check them out sometime.

[shadowwolf]

I also learned that Walmart throws out opened returned electronics and have gotten iPods, iPads, cell phones, printers, home phones, and even a laptop. Nothing humiliating about it.

I've never gone dumpster diving but if I can get that kind of stuff from walmart then I might have to start.

[Nortcele]

The main thing besides the money and hardware is the FUCKING NUDES THAT YOU FIND, *calms himself* on a real its weird how much you can find on a HDD

[shadowwolf87]

And thats why i offer to take any hard drives that anyone is getting rid of. 

[iTpHo3NiX]

That's why I destroy my hds when I get rid of them. Magnet plus I take a hammar to the disks and a little bit of fire. No ones recovering shit from my trashed drives.

[Spectrum_963]

Yeah, and no, I haven't because I didn't do it more than once. May be because I'm a girl, and queasy, but I can't sift through people's trash. I get someone to do it for me and I stand behind them. :/

[Nortcele]

Yeah, and no, I haven't because I didn't do it more than once. May be because I'm a girl, and queasy, but I can't sift through people's trash. I get someone to do it for me and I stand behind them. :/

FAKE, NO, TOO MUCH, GO AWAY, SCARY FEMALE... you wouldn't believe that I have a girlfriend...

[Xires]

Yeah, and no, I haven't because I didn't do it more than once. May be because I'm a girl, and queasy, but I can't sift through people's trash. I get someone to do it for me and I stand behind them. :/

This is why women rule the world.  Because boobs can do that sort of thing to the minds of men.

Also..I used to do dumpster diving quite a bit and got grand things out of it.  We mostly went in for information(back before people thought about security & shred/burn policies) but occasionally we'd score some hardware.  There weren't that many places back then that had good hardware to throw away.  Still, we did once score a good credit card reader and subsequently converted it to a reader/writer.  We made several cards and stole a lot of money from people.  It took me years to pay it back(when I finally came to my senses and developed an ethos by which to live).  These days I'm too fat to fly so I don't really do dumpster diving anymore.

[Nortcele]

Xires a naughty convict ehh

[Xires]

'Convict' would suggest that I was actually tried & sentenced to jail for these crimes.  I was not.  I have never been caught, tried nor convicted of any hacking or computer-related crime.  That would require there to be enough evidence left behind to build a case.