[privacy] 93,754,333 Examples of Data Nonchalance

["Dude VanWinkle" <dudevanwinkle () gmail com>]

On 9/26/06, Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu <Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu> wrote:
> On Mon, 25 Sep 2006 15:56:11 EDT, Dude VanWinkle said:
>
> > against the people arrested for selling the laptop. See if the IDE
> > cables were removed. Even if it was opened and there were no
> > fingerprints that could tell an investigator something.
>
> Maybe if the system has never been opened for legitimate service, anyhow.
> Between a failed hard drive several months ago, and a more recent cooling fan
> issue that required multiple teardowns of the entire machine and an eventual
> replacement of the motherboard, everything on this laptop has been pulled 8 or
> 10 times.  So my prints and tool marks from screwdrivers are *all* over it -
> wouldn't take much at all to pop that one screw holding the drive in without
> adding noticably to the markings already there....

Yeah I didnt think that one through. You wouldnt even need to remove
the HDD, just boot off a linux ISO and then DD the laptops hdd to a
usb hard drive you inserted for that purpose.

-JP
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