Data Recovered From DVD Leads To Conviction, 24-Year Sentence 231
Lucas123 writes "The Santa Cruz, Calif. DA's office had been counting on a DVD with the recorded testimony of a victim in case against a serial rapist, but when they popped the video into the player, nothing came up — the disc was blank. To make matters worse, the cop who performed the original interview with the victim told the DA she never said she was 'forced,' so the judge wasn't going to allow the witness to testify in a case where her original statement to police was in conflict with her current testimony. After two local data recovery firms said there was no way to restore the data, a third was able to recover the police interview from two years earlier, which led the defendant to plead guilty earlier this month. Close call."
Re:That third house wasn't ILM was it? (not a joke (Score:5, Funny)
For best results, one should loosen their tin-foil hat occasionally.
Just sayin'.
ha ha, (Score:1, Funny)
Re:Only Meta-Data was damaged (Score:5, Funny)
Maybe you could send the dust to Seagate Recovery Service to get that blank section back.
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Re:protecting your data (Score:3, Funny)
For residential destruction, most people already have a microwave and don't feel like sinking $$ into a CD-capable shredder.
Plus, it looks cool and only takes ~3 seconds.
Re:So it's not only the the 3rd world after all! (Score:5, Funny)
While I am shocked, I am not that surprised at all.
...and I am puzzled as to how that works out!
It's easy:
1) Turn on a lamp.
2) Remove the light bulb.
3) With your left-hand forefinger, touch the silver-colored outer shielding where the light bulb screws in.
4) With your right-hand forefinger, touch the contact at the bottom of the receptacle.
Sorry, no "???" nor "profit", but you'll be shocked without being surprised. Hope that helps.
=)
Re:Dust on media (Score:5, Funny)
Usually it's physical contact first, THEN the tissue.
Re:Dust on media (Score:3, Funny)
Actually I thought... (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Tinfoil hat eh? (Score:3, Funny)
Officer Binks was present in the courtroom. I assure you, he's real.
Re:eep (Score:3, Funny)
Too bad smileys are now trademarked, else you could have used one to indicate it was just humor.
Only some smileys have been trademarked so far, leaving you with a range of permissible emotions to choose from. You could, for example, have indicated that the post was =:+}====_-_- ("shocking and powerful enough to have stunned me for long enough to grow a knee-length beard while giving me a hairstyle the wife would disapprove of"). This emotion is available for use until midnight tonight when my patent application for it lands on the desk of Vanuatu's Patent Office.
(This message contains humour referenceing the silly concept of patenting emotions and methods for depicting the expression of emotions in messages. The latter is called "writing", there are books full of prior art concerning the technique going back as long as ... well, books.)