[GNUz] April 6thhardware trail

[Roger Searle]

That data has gone.  You'll not see that drive again.  Give up all hope
of getting it back, and restore from backup.

You do have a backup, don't you . . .

Cheers,
Roger


Nick Rout wrote:
> On Fri, 07 Apr 2006 10:44:46 +1200
> Rik Tindall wrote:
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>> 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.
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> How do you propose that Telecon could trace a hard drive?
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> It may somehow be possible to trace a network card, if it is plugged
> into telecom's network in such a way as to reveal its MAC address to the
> world. However most aren't, as the typical briadband user has a firewall
> or router between the PC and Telecom.
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