I recently returned a product to goHardDrive, a merchant that specializes in selling used hard drives. During the return process, I discovered that they were accidentally publishing details about thousands of their customers, including their full names, mailing addresses, email addresses, and order details.

The leak

When I requested a return from goHardDrive, they assigned me a return merchandise authorization (RMA) number ending in five numeric digits. I’m not publishing my actual RMA number, but you can imagine that it was a number like this:

Development containers are cool and I want to see if they work out in practice.

And just as I post about waiting for my grade, the grade comes. I was pretty nervous to submit my first ever university written assignment, but the results just came in and I passed - nice news to get on the first day of my vacation.

And just as I post about waiting for my grade, the grade comes. I was pretty nervous to submit my first ever university written assignment, but the results just came in and I passed - nice news to get on the first day of my vacation.

Today is the first official day of my summer vacation. I’m sitting in Leijon, drinking a morning coffee can I write this. It’s been a pretty crazy 7 months. I haven’t written much lately - first out of diverted focus, later out of stubbornness.