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dump·ster div·ing

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  1. dumpster divingnoun

    the act of recovering, for any purpose, discarded items that would otherwise be sent to a landfill

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  1. Dumpster diving

    Dumpster diving is the practice of sifting through commercial or residential waste to find items that have been discarded by their owners, but that may prove useful to the dumpster diver. Dumpster diving is also viewed as an effective urban foraging technique. Dumpster divers will forage dumpsters for items such as clothing, furniture, food, and similar items in good working condition.

The New Hacker's Dictionary

  1. dumpster diving

    1. The practice of sifting refuse from an office or technical installation to extract confidential data, especially security-compromising information (‘dumpster’ is an Americanism for what is elsewhere called a skip). Back in AT&T's monopoly days, before paper shredders became common office equipment, phone phreaks (see phreaking) used to organize regular dumpster runs against phone company plants and offices. Discarded and damaged copies of AT&T internal manuals taught them much. The technique is still rumored to be a favorite of crackers operating against careless targets. 2. The practice of raiding the dumpsters behind buildings where producers and/or consumers of high-tech equipment are located, with the expectation (usually justified) of finding discarded but still-valuable equipment to be nursed back to health in some hacker's den. Experienced dumpster-divers not infrequently accumulate basements full of moldering (but still potentially useful) cruft.

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  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of dumpster diving in Chaldean Numerology is: 2

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of dumpster diving in Pythagorean Numerology is: 1

Examples of dumpster diving in a Sentence

  1. Gavin Lux:

    Im like, You went dumpster diving for it? I guess I appreciate you doing that, twenty years from now I can tell my kids, Hey, this ball was in the trash can.


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