John Carmack on expert witnesses and 'non literal' copying

Re:John Carmack on expert witnesses and 'non literal' copying by Ygg2 on Thursday February 02, 2017 @02:00PM (#13553395)

Every dev knows how to wipe a drive. Buy an identical drive. Throw old drive into the incinerator.

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Re:John Carmack on expert witnesses and 'non literal' copying by rasz_pl on Friday February 03, 2017 @02:33AM (#13558376)

Lack of history is a clue system was wiped or reinstalled from scratch.

Its very difficult to make windows appear to be an old actively used install. Encase (or new software, I havent done forensic for >6 years now) will tell you everything about timestamps and what that means.

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Re:John Carmack on expert witnesses and 'non literal' copying by Ygg2 on Friday February 03, 2017 @09:46AM (#13560091)

I was joking. But honestly, if you don't your secrets to be found, you do have to go for extreme measures.

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Re:John Carmack on expert witnesses and 'non literal' copying by rockdoe on Thursday February 02, 2017 @03:18PM (#13554230)

I didn't know this but I do now.

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