Information diving is the practice of recovering technical data, sometimes confidential or secret, from discarded material.
It is often in such circumstances for an information diver to copy installed software (e.g., word processors, operating systems, computer games, etc.).
[1][2][3] Today, files, letters, memos, photographs, IDs, passwords, credit cards, and more can be found in dumpsters.
There is still considerable Internet activity on the subject of dumpster diving, so it is unlikely to have stopped with the widespread introduction of document shredding.
The Trinity Foundation successfully used this technique to report on the activities of televangelist Robert Tilton and was also able to obtain information on Benny Hinn.