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Sony hacking suspect smashes computers to get out of prosecution
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Poetic.Injustice
Member
Smart guy.
blitzcloud
Banned
Guess his favorite genre is hack n slash!
djplaeskool
Member
Not quite scott-free (Obstruction of Justice) but damned if a year of house arrest ain't better than years in jail.
MarkMclovin
Member
Why smash them? Why not just format the drives?
Technosteve
Banned
they can still read the data with a sem
djplaeskool
Member
Data can still be retrieved after most types of formats.
Physical damage is the best solution.
Smashing is hell of a lot quicker and more reliable than sending a format command, plus forensics might recover some data depending how it's formatted
Physically destroying them is really the only way to be 100% sure the data is destroyed.
That dude looks like Gollum.
Data can be recovered.
Of course, he could've used overwriting program, and then formated the thing, no?
Schweinehund
Member
It's not hard to recover data from a formatted hard drive, there is a whole area of computer science called computer forensics that deals with recovering tampered data.
ElectricKaibutsu
Member
If he made the hard drives "disappear" then what's the point of smashing his HDD-less computers?
So they came in it was like:
-Are you hacking something right there? Because we don't like people hacking things!
-No sir, no hacking is being done
-Okay! We will be back to make sure, but don't smash those computers or anything because we won't have any proof if we find out you were hacking !
-Are you hacking something right there? Because we don't like people hacking things!
-No sir, no hacking is being done
-Okay! We will be back to make sure, but don't smash those computers or anything because we won't have any proof if we find out you were hacking !
Don't leave any evidence behind to chance
dragonelite
Member
If im not mistaken this only deletes the directory tree or something the data is still there unless its rewritten.
Im not sure shouldn't have been slacking in those classes.
Seriously. Who executed this, Chief Wiggum?
I would do both.
lolz that was his main worry
blitzcloud
Banned
Wondering that too.
Deus Ex Machina
Member
Yep, your computer does not exactly deletes anything
You never know how much stuff is imprinted on his 8GB+ of GDDR5
Sir_Crocodile
Member
Not if he uses a 3 pass dban.
But I guess given the stakes he wasn't thinking 100% impassively
ElectricBlanketFire
Member
What was the episode where he says something like, "but don't get rid of the evidence otherwise we have no case and you'll get off scott free?"
atomic moth
Member
They'll get him on some other charge. The Feds don't forget.
He should be smart enough to run DBAN on the drives to overwrite them instead of playing his hand that he destroyed the drives. Anything over 3 wipe passes is pretty much irrecoverable.
ComputerMKII
Banned
Isn't destroying evidence a crime?
NekoFever
Member
That takes hours for a large drive.
Deus Ex Machina
Member
famousmortimer
Banned
If the computer is smashed to shit... you must acquit.
I hope he was singing "Ooooohhh, Smash it Up!"
I take it he didn't have time for it then?
SneakyStephan
Banned
Yeah I also don't get why he smashed the rest of the pc, what is the point?
Maybe just 'junnalism' sensationalism because he stomped some USB sticks and a HDD.
Maybe just 'junnalism' sensationalism because he stomped some USB sticks and a HDD.
phosphor112
Banned
I like how that works out... smh.
So.. other than tampering what else can they get him on?
EDIT: So.. basically nothing. Ok.
So.. other than tampering what else can they get him on?
EDIT: So.. basically nothing. Ok.
The one where homer uses an automatic dialer. Lisa's Date with Density.