Insider-Trading Suspects Smash Hard Drive Evidence

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."'"

Comments

Encryption

[heypete]

Encryption seems a bit more foolproof. It's also a bit more believable that one might "forget" a lengthy passphrase, while physical destruction looks a bit suspicious.

That said, encryption and physical destruction is also useful, as it means that even if someone gets some of the physical components of the disk, it will be even more difficult to get any data off of them.

White collar criminals ARE smarter

[Jawnn]

So they should continue to receive the lighter sentences. Right? It shouldn't matter that the impact of their crime was the ruination of thousands of lives. Putting these guys in with common thugs is just cruel.

Re:Moral of the Story

[Princeofcups]

So what do we learn kids? Don't talk about the skeezy shit you do to anyone: friend, family, coworker, or other. If you do bad shit, keep it to yourself.

You've never worked in trading (IT end), have you? These guys are immune from normal laws. At the CBOT in Chicago, there were drug dealers selling coke right outside the front doors. The police were NEVER to be found. And there was a lot of buying, piles of coke spilled on the bathroom floors, etc. Most of the traders were college football players/econ majors. I kid you not. They need to be large and imposing to get seen/push their way around on the trading floor. The company I worked for would burn them out at a rapid pace.

Anyway, this kind of talk was quite common. When you are above the law, who cares, you know? When the worse prison sentence you can get is a 3 month vacation at golf course, who cares?

Put Anon in charge

[Anonymous Coward]

I think we should put Anonymous in charge of the Internet. They're not perfect, but at least with them the definitions of Free Speech would not be "The freedom to say what you want - so long as we agree with it".
True, they would allow any kind of domain, even .nazi since they know better than to be offended by speech, but that's a price I'm more than willing to pay.

Re:Destruction of evidence

[HiThere]

Having spoken to some survivors of those camps, I think you paint an overly civilized picture of them.

The children were sent to what could properly be called "retraining schools" to encourage them into politically correct beliefs. Their property was stolen, and never repaid. Etc.

OTOH, you are correct. They were "internment camps", and most people survived them. They might have become impoverished and be forced to work as farm laborers, but they did live through the experience. Most of them.

Saying they were given homes is painting a very pretty picture on the actuality, but it's not totally false. Quite. Similarly for the rest of your statements.

But you are right, they weren't extermination camps. They were essentially POW camps for citizens of the US. And as far as I have been able to figure out the entire purpose of them was to allow the wealth of those so interred to be confiscated by others with powerful political connections. (You might notice that Hawaii, which had a larger proportion of Japanese citizens than did California didn't need or use any such camps. Nor were the German citizens on the east cost treated so. It appears to have been legalized racial discrimination for the purpose of confiscating wealth.)