Not suspicious at all. Nothing to see here. Overzealous security guard. Non story. Look! Over there! Something shiny!


Hopefully the police take a copy of the hard drive and any paperwork. That should be interesting...

This just never stops.

Wilson said Charlie Brooks had left the bag with a friend who was returning it, but dropped it in the wrong part of the garage. When asked how the bag ended up in a bin he replied: "The suggestion is that a cleaner thought it was rubbish and put it in the bin." Wilson added: "Charlie was looking for it together with a couple of the building staff.

Come on now, who hasn't told a friend to return the laptop you lent them by leaving it in a parking garage? I do that 2 or 3 times a week.

theorellior: I'm assuming the world has always been run by a farking clownshow and it's just every now and then you catch a glimpse of giant floppy feet.

Hey! Clown are more professional than that. Quit giving clowns a bad name.

The sheer panic all this seems to be causing is amusing as hell... these people KNOW they are up shiat creek without a paddle.

///What can I say, the discordian in me is strong today.

Marcus Aurelius: I always keep my laptop in a public trash can. It's the last place anyone would look.

Well I usually hit mine with a degaussing machine and then a 5 pound sledge hammer before sending it to the electronics recycling center, but to each his own I guess.

Slaves2Darkness: Marcus Aurelius: I always keep my laptop in a public trash can. It's the last place anyone would look.

Well I usually hit mine with a degaussing machine and then a 5 pound sledge hammer before sending it to the electronics recycling center, but to each his own I guess.

DBAN. Then what you said.

Not sure how all those electro magnets got stuck all over it either...

Hubby tries to reclaim it from security guard but can't prove ownership. Then they start denying it is hers.

Yeah.... these clowns are going down.

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zz9: Hopefully the police take a copy of the hard drive and any paperwork. That should be interesting...a nice holiday for all the cops who need to be bribed

FTFY.

Alleged computer hacking of N.J. company by News Corp. subsidiary gets new attention (new window)

In the middle of a trial in Trenton in 2009 regarding the lawsuit filed by the Rebhs, News Corp.'s subsidiary, News America Marketing In-Store Services, settled the case and then bought the Hamilton Township company in a 2009 deal worth about $30 million that requires the Rebhs to keep quiet about the case.

This story is like the energizer bunny it just keeps going.

Wilson said Charlie Brooks had left the bag with a friend who was returning it, but dropped it in the wrong part of the garage. When asked how the bag ended up in a bin he replied: "The suggestion is that a cleaner thought it was rubbish and put it in the bin."

So the cleaning staff picked up a bag heavy enough to contain a laptop and papers and never even looked in it? And just tossed it in the garbage?

yeah, that totally makes sense. I mean NOBODY would look in the bag for ID, or to see if there was anything valuable.

The only remaining mystery is how it took these losers so long to get caught.

Man....this is just the story that keeps on giving.

Could you imagine the outrage if this were associated with "The New York Times Company" rather than "Newscorp"?

/ Just saying

Whereas, anywhere else in England, any bag containing anything at all being found unattended is probable cause to bring out the bomb squad, alert the media, and cause full grown men to shait themselves, spontaneously.

Because Terrorism.!

Why did NewsCorp just order 432 tons of magnets?

Aw fark. Scotland Yard has it?

Well, I'm certain they'll find that absolutely nothing was amiss and that coincidentally the hard drive was stuck to a scrapyard electromagnet for a week, spun up with gravel in it and then steeped in seawater for a fortnight...

For reasons which are totally not suspicious at all.

zz9: Hopefully the police take a copy of the hard drive and any paperwork. That should be interesting...

The same police who accepted bribe money to ignore the crime in question?

LarryDan43: Not sure how all those electro magnets got stuck all over it either...

I'm not sure which is more scary: He might have done that, meaning evidence was destroyed that may never now come to light OR He didn't do that, which just provides more evidence for my theory that the people who run things are entirely incompetent.

So he accidentally the whole thing then?

It's a good thing that none of that shiat ever happens in the U.S.

theorellior: Savoir-Faire: Hey! Clown are more professional than that. Quit giving clowns a bad name.

Tell that to the US House of Representatives.

He's taking professional clowns. The House of Representatives just merely want to be clowns.

"They were nothing to do with Rebekah or the [phone-hacking] case."

Rockdrummer: "They were nothing to do with Rebekah or the [phone-hacking] case."

well then, that settles it.

aug3: It's a good thing that none of that shiat ever happens in the U.S.
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This man is a hero. Convicted of phone hacking? No. Guilty of destroying that bag o shiat ACORN and other liberal tax payer money suckers, yes.

LarryDan43: Not sure how all those electro magnets got stuck all over it either...

theorellior: I'm assuming the world has always been run by a farking clownshow and it's just every now and then you catch a glimpse of giant floppy feet.

I think I see the problem...

thatboyoverthere: theorellior: Savoir-Faire: Hey! Clown are more professional than that. Quit giving clowns a bad name.

Tell that to the US House of Representatives.

He's taking professional clowns. The House of Representatives just merely want to be clowns Senators.

james1878: LarryDan43: Not sure how all those electro magnets got stuck all over it either...

theorellior: I'm assuming the world has always been run by a farking clownshow and it's just every now and then you catch a glimpse of giant floppy feet.

I think I see the problem...
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Oh I heart this post.

I've had a number of lawyers and accountants as clients, and I always double-tap their old hard disks with a power drill before they go to recycling.

GWSuperfan: neversubmit: Alleged computer hacking of N.J. company by News Corp. subsidiary gets new attention (new window)

In the middle of a trial in Trenton in 2009 regarding the lawsuit filed by the Rebhs, News Corp.'s subsidiary, News America Marketing In-Store Services, settled the case and then bought the Hamilton Township company in a 2009 deal worth about $30 million that requires the Rebhs to keep quiet about the case.

This story is like the energizer bunny it just keeps going.

I saw that on TRMS last night. Looks like illegal hacking, followed by payoffs, is SOP for NewsCorp subsidiaries.

Was the Fox affiliate that hacked Fark owned by News Corp? We sure haven't heard about that story in a while, have we? I wonder how much they settled with Drew for.

I'm having some difficulty believing this.

Personally, I like Charlie and Konnie Brookers a lot better....

Rockdrummer: aug3: It's a good thing that none of that shiat ever happens in the U.S.
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This man is a hero. Convicted of phone hacking? No. Guilty of destroying that bag o shiat ACORN and other liberal tax payer money suckers, yes.

Acorn's budget was $25 million, only 10% of which came from the Feds (or $2.5 million). Your bile seems woefully misdirected.

neversubmit: Alleged computer hacking of N.J. company by News Corp. subsidiary gets new attention (new window)

In the middle of a trial in Trenton in 2009 regarding the lawsuit filed by the Rebhs, News Corp.'s subsidiary, News America Marketing In-Store Services, settled the case and then bought the Hamilton Township company in a 2009 deal worth about $30 million that requires the Rebhs to keep quiet about the case.

That's the tip of the iceberg on that story really. They have settled out for a total of over $665 Million dollars in 3 other similar suits. All alleged hacking, etc as part of the MO of News Corp. The biggest judgment was for $300 MILLION in a Michigan court, but as part of a second lawsuit by the same plaintiff (Valassis Communications, Inc.) News Corp agreed to settle both suits for a payout of $500 Million + additional consideration.

And what happened to the top executive involved in all of these shenanigans? (Well, if you're thinking that he was disciplined and removed from his position/the company, you would be sadly mistaken.) He was promoted and is currently the head of the NY Post.

it isn't that hard to wipe data without destroying the drive. i mean if the government wants something from a hard drive they will find it.

smashed up, a platter can still be read with an electron microscope (or what ever they might use). writing 1 or 0 to the whole thing numerous times, not so much. i have seen this happen on jobs. an employee gets fired and wipes a drive from an important desktop or a server. i have yet to see any data recovered in cases where somebody has written 1 or 0 to every possible sector they could write to on a drive. mind you these companies spent thousands trying to recover data and came up dry. often a smashed or damaged disk is much easier from a recovery standpoint. in linux/unix systems this power is often root and a few commands away from reality. some diagnostic software does this too, just boot off a CD. i think hitachi DFT does as part of an advanced diagnostic option. that will wipe all useable data, but it takes time. the end drive is still useable to others while your data is long gone and you recycle too. don't destroy good hard drives if they are new...ish. you can sell them

flash memory and SSD are a different story. i have yet to really work with any of the solid state hard drives. that tech still needs a few tweaks before i jump on board for large volume storage. local OS boot, it's great! have done that for years from compact flash cards on some systems.

hard drives work very much like magnetic core memory, except for the random access part. i have heard of people getting data off old core modules they found.

fusillade762: Rockdrummer: aug3: It's a good thing that none of that shiat ever happens in the U.S.
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This man is a hero. Convicted of phone hacking? No. Guilty of destroying that bag o shiat ACORN and other liberal tax payer money suckers, yes.

Acorn's budget was $25 million, only 10% of which came from the Feds (or $2.5 million). Your bile seems woefully misdirected.

I'm sure he was 500 times more outraged about nearly $10,000,000,000.00 LOST in MOTHERFARKING CASH lost in Iraq during the early invasion. I bet he typed in all caps for a year after learning about that.

/not

kd8our: it isn't that hard to wipe data without destroying the drive. i mean if the government wants something from a hard drive they will find it.

smashed up, a platter can still be read with an electron microscope (or what ever they might use). writing 1 or 0 to the whole thing numerous times, not so much.

7 times officially, 35 for the paranoid/smart, and you want random data some of the time.