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> The files also include .mp3 files, presumably from someone's desktop or laptop PC. Among the songs: Superstition, by Stevie Wonder, and Wannabe by Spice Girls

> The files also include .mp3 files, presumably from someone's desktop or laptop PC. Among the songs: Superstition, by Stevie Wonder, and Wannabe by Spice Girls, and a variety of AC/DC and Cat Stevens songs. Quite an odd detail to add to the article, why was this seen as relevant?

kabwj 7y ago
Reminds me of when they reported on the contents of the hard drive of Bin Laden.
- Isamu 7y ago
  He was a Spice Girls fan?
  - bqqyz 7y ago
    I think he watched anime.
    - deleted 7y ago
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  - mtmail 7y ago
    It contained strategic Al-Qa‘ida’ documents, but news outlets loved writing about the unlicensed anti virus software, disney movies, anime, porn that was also on the hard drive. https://www.cia.gov/news-information/press-releases-statements/2017-press-releases-statements/cia-releases-additional-files-recovered-in-ubl-compound-raid.html https://www.cia.gov/news-information/press-releases-statemen...
sct202 7y ago
It humanizes the victim from computer hard drive hacked to this is a person with quirks who you could know.
- DogRunner 7y ago
  And let everybody know: hey again it's a Windows desktop system in a critical environment and surely everything else is Windows based products.
- rdiddly 7y ago
  Also allows me to do some musical profiling. This identifies them as probably a GenXer or so. Because you would've had to be between about 15 and 25 to like the Spice Girls in 1997, let's say up to 30 y.o. to keep their MP3 ironically and/or nostalgically. And I'm claiming there's no way in hell you would've "discovered" them later, so that's a 15-year age range, birth years bounded 1967-1982, current ages 37-52. Stevie Wonder and Cat Stevens tend to push it more toward the older end of that range. AC/DC correlates with that entire cohort, so doesn't provide any additional or contradictory information. Unless we knew whether it was Bon Scott era or Brian Johnson, heh heh. Expected age 46 ± 5.
  - phnowned 7y ago
    I'll just keep my Stephen Hawking albums from 3010 around to subtly let you into the trucking business. I use a real filesystem so the 3010 dates will not lie. Expected truck-driver +¹

kabwj 7y ago

Reminds me of when they reported on the contents of the hard drive of Bin Laden.

Isamu 7y ago
He was a Spice Girls fan?
- bqqyz 7y ago
  I think he watched anime.
  - deleted 7y ago
    [deleted]
- mtmail 7y ago
  It contained strategic Al-Qa‘ida’ documents, but news outlets loved writing about the unlicensed anti virus software, disney movies, anime, porn that was also on the hard drive. https://www.cia.gov/news-information/press-releases-statements/2017-press-releases-statements/cia-releases-additional-files-recovered-in-ubl-compound-raid.html https://www.cia.gov/news-information/press-releases-statemen...

sct202 7y ago

It humanizes the victim from computer hard drive hacked to this is a person with quirks who you could know.

DogRunner 7y ago
And let everybody know: hey again it's a Windows desktop system in a critical environment and surely everything else is Windows based products.
rdiddly 7y ago
Also allows me to do some musical profiling. This identifies them as probably a GenXer or so. Because you would've had to be between about 15 and 25 to like the Spice Girls in 1997, let's say up to 30 y.o. to keep their MP3 ironically and/or nostalgically. And I'm claiming there's no way in hell you would've "discovered" them later, so that's a 15-year age range, birth years bounded 1967-1982, current ages 37-52. Stevie Wonder and Cat Stevens tend to push it more toward the older end of that range. AC/DC correlates with that entire cohort, so doesn't provide any additional or contradictory information. Unless we knew whether it was Bon Scott era or Brian Johnson, heh heh. Expected age 46 ± 5.
- phnowned 7y ago
  I'll just keep my Stephen Hawking albums from 3010 around to subtly let you into the trucking business. I use a real filesystem so the 3010 dates will not lie. Expected truck-driver +¹