[GNUz] April 6thhardware trail

[Rik Tindall]

Sue McGaw wrote:

> Hi Folks,
> I work at times for a research scientist and have just finished a 
> stint in the forest at Maruia..
> While the project was in progress, the scientist's hard drive was 
> lifted from the office.As there was a lot of sensitive environmental 
> info, reports, patent recipes and other environmentally beneficial 
> stuff,  we are  open to ideas of where  a comparitively new hard drive 
> ( less than a year old)  might go to in chch.
> Also with the talk of IP adresses  is it possible to trace the current 
> location if the hard drive is in use?
>
> Thank you Don for some more deeper understanding of  the Clarkconnect 
> and project
> cheers Sue
> gayton.gardens@xtra.co.nz

Given the sensitivity of the contents, and the circumstances, it seems 
most unlikely that the drive would ever be heard of again. You would 
require the tracing services of Telecom (at least) to locate the 
expropriator, if they were ever dumb enough to run the drive's installed 
O/S. These last two factors are no more likely to happen than the first, 
IMHO.

.02c

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