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The main reason for dumpster diving is for the acquisition of information. As with most forms of social engineering, “Working smarter, not harder” is a good slogan. Doing hours of work brute-forcing a password or account number that was discarded on an unshredded sticky post-in note seems silly when you can just obtain it from a trash bag.
