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Insider-Trading Suspects Smash Hard Drive Evidence

Posted by samzenpus on from the you-forgot-to-melt-it-down dept.

An anonymous reader writes "We all know Slashdotters love debating the best way to wipe a hard drive clean. Looks like tech-savvy Wall Street Hedge Fund managers also know the best way to do it. From the WSJ article: 'Mr. Longueuil's version of that night's events was recorded later, during a December meeting with former colleague Mr. Freeman, who by then was cooperating with the government and recording conversations, according to the U.S. complaint. "F—in' pulled the external drives apart," Mr. Longueuil told Mr. Freeman during their meeting, according to the criminal complaint. "Put 'em into four separate little baggies, and then at 2 a.m. 2 a.m. on a Friday night, I put this stuff inside my black North Face jacket, and leave the apartment and I go on like a twenty block walk around the city and try to find a, a garbage truck and threw the s—t in the back of like random garbage trucks, different garbage trucks four different garbage trucks."'"

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  1. Hmm... by fuzzyfuzzyfungus · · Score: 4, Funny

    Perhaps we shouldn't be whining about tech-clueless management after all... This seems like a much worse alternative. On the plus side, he probably didn't even think about the mailserver backups...

    1. Re:Hmm... by ArcherB · · Score: 4, Funny

      Seriously? With 32,600 (http://www.observer.com/2008/wasted-new-york-citys-giant-garbage-problem) tons of garbage being generated per day, even if we assume 8 pounds of garbage sorted each man hour, that makes it 8.15 million man hours *per day*. That means with 1 million people you might be able to get to those drives in what, a couple of years? Maybe?

      Simple, we get a big-ass magnet, like one of those they use to pick up cars, spread the garbage out and run the magnet over it. The drives will be picked up by the magnet (along with other metal objects) where they should be much easier to pick out. As a bonus, we can recycle the extra metals.

      (Yes, this is a joke. Please don't bother replying telling me the giant hole in my plan)

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  2. Re:Why not use Mafia methods? by VorpalRodent · · Score: 3, Funny

    I tried to stuff a horse's head into my computer case. Sure enough, now the computer won't turn on. That'll teach those drives to offer up incriminating evidence!

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  3. Re:Destruction of evidence by mooingyak · · Score: 3, Funny

    There are a number of things that have happened during my lifetime, which I've not told ANYONE.

    Could you provide examples?

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