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

[Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu]

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....

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