[dexterdog]

How could they sue if you legitimately purchased one of their discarded drives? When you bought it whatever was on it became yours and I doubt their CEO would like their data floating around like that unless it's considered useless.

[fragmede]

First they'd cast aspersions on the drive being "legitimately" purchased, then they'd float that you're an evil criminal, in violation of the CFAA and wire fraud acts, and for receiving stolen property.

If the government is out to get you, they'll try and find something to come after you for. Just ask Josh Renaud.

https://www.theregister.com/AMP/2022/02/15/missouri_html_hac...

[dexterdog]

Backblaze is not the government. I mean if you're paranoid about it you could submit a bug bounty with a temporary email address and gauge the response. If I were Backblaze I would like to know about this and would be willing to at least send you a pair of new replacement drives to get that one back, assuming this kind of disposal is not their SOP. It's possible they ran this drive through their vetting process and it didn't meet their spec so they sold it off. The logs might just be from that testing/vetting and any data even on real production backblaze drives I would assume is so striped-out that a single disk would not have anything of recoverable value.