Posted on 08/01/2017 5:17:19 AM PDT by RoosterRedux
Somebody must have thought they were hiding something by smashing those computer hard-drives the FBI recovered from the home of Imran Awan, Florida Democratic Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz’s former information technology (IT) aide.
But odds are excellent they were wrong. Federal law enforcement authorities may have already recovered and read whatever was on those hard drives.
“It depends on what happens, but even if it is hit with a hammer, it probably doesn’t damage the platters that actually hold the data, which remains recoverable,” said Tom Hakim, engineering supervisor for werecoverdata.com, a New York-based lab that specializes in difficult digital retrieval.
“In most cases, it’s very likely” the information on a smashed hard drive can be recovered “in two or three days, maybe a week,” Hakim said.
His lab, which does extensive work for law enforcement and Fortune 500 corporations, has also recovered data from disks that were in fires and that had been submerged in water.
That may be very bad news for Pakistani-born Imran. He and his younger brothers Abid and Jamal, his wife Hina Alvi and his best friend Rao Abbas are criminal suspects in a federal investigation first made public in February into abuse of the congressional IT servers, including the possible transfer of data, emails and files from the offices of dozens of House Democrats.
Imran had worked for Wasserman Schultz — who resigned in July 2016 as chairwoman of the Democratic National Committee after its IT system was hacked — since 2005. His relatives and friend had also worked on and off as IT aides, being paid collectively more than $4 million from 2009 to 2016.
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>>Those hard drives were a loose end bigger than Delaware
And, per an executive order issued by Dubya - should’ve been encrypted...
https://freerepublic.com/focus/news/3573651/posts?page=72#72
Wonder when the last time the OMB audited compliance of that policy was.
>>an executive order issued by Dubya
Or under the authority of his Administration.
I worked as a contractor for DOE a while and they encrypted everything on the hard drive, however mundane. Surely state secrets would get at least that unless Hillary was in charge.
The best hard drive eraser is merely metal sand paper and sand off the mirror finish on the drive plates. Takes a few minutes but 100% effective.
Surely.
And it’s not like she wasn’t aware of the subject...
“Hillary Clinton wants “Manhattan-like project” to break encryption”
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2015/12/hillary-clinton-wants-manhattan-like-project-to-break-encryption/
>>From what little I saw of Scaramouch, I’d agree.
Well - NOT.
https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/meet-trumps-new-pro-gay-pro-abortion-communications-director
Which Trump hired Moochi - the POTUS or Ivanka and the Poodle Prince?
>>Which Trump hired Moochi - the POTUS or Ivanka and the Poodle Prince?
“Jared and Ivanka brought in Scaramucci as an instrument of destruction against Reince Priebus,”
https://freerepublic.com/focus/news/3573556/posts?page=1#1
SMH.
EHRLICHMAN: Hotpants!
NIXON: Jeeezus Ch[CENSORED].
bkmk
“LET THE RECOVERING BEGIN.”
Probably taking a nap.
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