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one person's trash is another person's dinner, desk, and thesis data.
means deliberately searching through discarded waste to find usable food, goods, information, or evidence.
from the term rode in on 1980s hacker slang, where digging through corporate trash for discarded documents and passwords became a legit intelligence tactic before it ever meant grocery store bread runs.
legal gray zonetrash on public curbs is fair game in most us states
security termhackers call paper trash raids information diving
food waste scalegrocery stores toss enough edible food to feed millions
for instance
trashwiki — crowdsourced global map of good dumpster spots since 2009
kevin mitnick — famous hacker who dove corporate bins for passwords in the 1980s
grocery store hauls — viral tiktok creators show bakery trash worth hundreds weekly