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The only real variable should be "can you afford to get another machine right away?" I guess in truth it might be "do your backups actually work", but if that'

• kbenson 11y ago
  What about: I can afford another machine right now, but will that put a monetary strain on other areas of my life that are important to me? I can afford another machine, and I have backups, but the restoration of the backups is painful enough that I would prefer to avoid it. I would prefer this episode be over with as quickly as possible as I'm not guilty, so should I comply to speed this process along? (note that I think this isn't necessarily guaranteed to be a good strategy). Depending on what the police believe about the situation may greatly affect what is the path of least resistance and problems, but you unfortunately have very little insight into exactly what that is. In some cases, talking to and cooperating with the police is the easiest way to extricate yourself from the situation, and in other cases it's the easiest way that they can twist the situation to implicate you in some way. The safest way is to always have a lawyer present and never voluntarily give up information, but not everyone is in a situation that makes the safest choice easy to take.