thesuperfunk
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Guys like this would have been straight into a top job years ago ... now they're all doing time!
I fail to see what smashing the computers accomplished other than making him look like a panicking guilty idiot. You'd think someone involved in something as serious as bringing down PSN would have a clear backup plan also, but I mean wrongly accused or not I'm sure he had something on that HDD that he didn't want them to see. Get out of 20 years of prison only to get slammed with a bunch of other charges.
Either way I wonder if he knows how to properly destroy a hard drive? You can recover data from some surprisingly damaged drives, just a matter of cost. And I doubt he has a hard drive shredder lying around.
What evidence??
Get it.. I was only reinstalling windows
I fail to see what smashing the computers accomplished other than making him look like a panicking guilty idiot. You'd think someone involved in something as serious as bringing down PSN would have a clear backup plan also, but I mean wrongly accused or not I'm sure he had something on that HDD that he didn't want them to see. Get out of 20 years of prison only to get slammed with a bunch of other charges.
Either way I wonder if he knows how to properly destroy a hard drive? You can recover data from some surprisingly damaged drives, just a matter of cost. And I doubt he has a hard drive shredder lying around.
Surprised more people don't do this.
"FBI, open the door"
"OH SHIT"
Perfection :lol
Add me to the list of dumbfounded people. So the guy is questioned by the FBI, who don't execute a search warrant for his stuff, and when they much later ask for his hard drives he does not have access to them. Is this obstruction of justice? Or is it incriminating that he confessed to smashing his drives (if I understand things correctly)? What if the drives were encrypted, would that also have been obstruction of justice?
One year in house arrest is not leniency, it is a very harsh sentence. The guy is also a felon now, I guess, which is not a joke.
None of that matters they would have taken ALL of his computers for evidence and he wouldn't have seen them for a long ass time until that stuff had gone through all the bureaucracy. The only way I'm guessing he could have gotten out of the house arrest is That I assume the FBI knew what computers he had before the warrant, so he would have needed to dispose of it long time before the FBI got involved.
Uh, I'm pretty sure it doesn't.Quite simple: convict him for 20 years. Destruction of evidence implies guilt.
Damn, I'm kinda glad he got out of that. I know what he did was illegal nonetheless but 20 years is fucking excessive for that kind of thing.
Uh, I'm pretty sure it doesn't.
"FBI, open the door"
"OH SHIT"
In some cases it does. If someone subpenas your drives, and then you erase them, it's considered guilt in many cases.
Uh, I'm pretty sure it doesn't.
$1 bet that he had something along the lines of beastiality or pedophilia porn on his PCs as well.
Implies. Doesn't prove. Innocent until proven guilty.Quite simple: convict him for 20 years. Destruction of evidence implies guilt.
Not how the law works broQuite simple: convict him for 20 years. Destruction of evidence implies guilt.
He knew he was under investigation and destroyed all his computers. I don't know, but I don't tend to destroy all my computers when I have no replacements.
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.
He knew he was under investigation and destroyed all his computers. I don't know, but I don't tend to destroy all my computers when I have no replacements.
DBAN's a standalone bootable thing that can entirely wipe any drive attached to a system. But yeah, the function they're performing is the same thing.How does dban compare to CCleaners "wipe free space" tool? They have 1, 3, 7, and 32 passes. I imagine it's the same thing?
Quite simple: convict him for 20 years. Destruction of evidence implies guilt.
Quite simple: convict him for 20 years. Destruction of evidence implies guilt.
Of course it isn't, It's pretty obvious to them that he had done something illegal so they weren't going to let him get off scot free they're not that stupid. But comparative to $250,000 and 20 years this is nothing. even 5 or year 10 years is bad enough but 20 is something else.
Sweating and stuttering are things you can't control, destruction of evidence is something you do as a conscious choice.Those are a tremendous amount of conclusions you are jumping to. Sweating and stuttering could also be signs of guilt. Maybe he is overly conscious about security it could be argued, maybe he was letting off some stream like the printer beatdown in Office Space. If you have bad credit, insurers imply that you are also a bad driver... see where all this is going?
It could if they raised the penalty of obstruction of justice to the same punishment as the crime itself.Not how the law works bro
If he's into computers half as much as your average GAFer, house arrest doesn't sound like much of a punishment. It sounds like... Tuesday. I'm surprised they didn't include something along the lines of being prohibited from accessing the internet or owning a computer or something for the duration of his sentence.
Pretty sure some prisons how you access to a computer.
It's pretty easy to run CCleaner or similar programs and do a 32-pass erase.Also, reformatting a hard drive does absolutely nothing but tell the computer that a previously reserved memory sector can now be overwritten. When you clear out your recycling bin or trash folder that data is still very much present. Unless the computer actively overwrites that precise sector again (which can very rare on large hard drives) it will still remain. If you ever want a 100% method to confirm your old data is gone then multiple hammer swings, drill holes, and grinding is required.
As per why he destroyed his HDD-less computers? My guess is that he simply wanted to be sure. He didn't know what the FBI knew about him but he did know what was at stake. Maybe they could trace back which motherboard serial number he had, which RAm type, which OS serial key, I don't know. He could replace a $1000-2000 PC over time but can't replace 20 years in jail.
It could if they raised the penalty of obstruction of justice to the same punishment as the crime itself.
It's pretty easy to run CCleaner or similar programs and do a 32-pass erase.
But if I was in his shoes I would of smashed the hell out of my computer and router anyways. Fuck, I would have set it on fire.
"FBI, open the door"
"OH SHIT"
.Watch The Alleged LulzSec Leader Sing Along To Grease. Yes, Really
On the page amongst other things is this: a video of him doing karaoke with someone purported to be his lady friend.
Its next-level insane. Next. Level. CRAY
It'd probably be sufficient enough, and what I was saying is that yes you can actually do a clean erase on a hard drive with software.Hours of work with no guarantee that it will be sufficient and also no guarantee that your erase will be finished before they return or 30 minutes of blissful destruction.
Data can still be retrieved after most types of formats.
Physical damage is the best solution.
Quite simple: convict him for 20 years. Destruction of evidence implies guilt.
I fail to see what smashing the computers accomplished other than making him look like a panicking guilty idiot.