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Fair point. Especially given such a crime would be pretty opportunistic. That being said, this does remind me of the stunts pulled to get Ross Ulbricht's lapto
by jborichevskiy 7y ago
Fair point. Especially given such a crime would be pretty opportunistic.
That being said, this does remind me of the stunts pulled to get Ross Ulbricht's laptop:
> To prevent Ulbricht from encrypting or deleting files on the laptop he was using to run the site as he was arrested, two agents pretended to be quarreling lovers. When they had sufficiently distracted him,[30] according to Joshuah Bearman of Wired, a third agent grabbed the laptop while Ulbricht was distracted by the apparent lovers' fight and handed it to agent Thomas Kiernan.[31] Kiernan then inserted a flash drive in one of the laptop's USB ports, with software that copied key files.[30]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ross_Ulbricht https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ross_Ulbricht
I do think if anyone was that determined to get my laptop they probably deserve it.
- magduf 7y agoWow, this guy got a double life sentence plus 40 years for "money laundering, computer hacking, and conspiracy to traffic narcotics"? He could have gotten a lighter sentence if he had carried out a mass shooting. And how did the flash drive trick work? Was he running Windows on that laptop? Very bad idea.