Fired employee deleted servers, causing it to lose S$918,000

Re:Fired employee deleted servers, causing it to lose S$918,000 by constantcrying on Wednesday June 12, 2024 @03:37PM (#40662098)

>full disk encryption is a thing.

Just actually get rid of the evidence. Throw your laptop into a shredder and buy a new one. At least get a new hard drive.

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Re:Fired employee deleted servers, causing it to lose S$918,000 by kstrauser on Wednesday June 12, 2024 @03:49PM (#40662247)

Intent: thinking through this from a problem-solving perspective. Don't do this crap, kids, lest ye end up in prison or worse.

Or at least do a full wipe (including backups) and reinstall. "Here's my FDE key, but I erased everything after I left that place and I don't have their stuff anymore."

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Re:Fired employee deleted servers, causing it to lose S$918,000 by clvx on Wednesday June 12, 2024 @03:56PM (#40662335)

Use a throwaway disk or device, get rid of that and leave the official one alone.

I discourage this behavior but there could be many cases when this could be useful.

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Re:Fired employee deleted servers, causing it to lose S$918,000 by ceejayoz on Wednesday June 12, 2024 @03:40PM (#40662124)

I can't speak for Singapore's specifics, but outright destroying evidence is often its own crime.

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Re:Fired employee deleted servers, causing it to lose S$918,000 by freeone3000 on Wednesday June 12, 2024 @03:48PM (#40662233)

Good luck proving it!

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Re:Fired employee deleted servers, causing it to lose S$918,000 by ceejayoz on Wednesday June 12, 2024 @04:12PM (#40662532)

In a country where possession of chewing gum is illegal and 14 grams of heroin geets you a death sentence, I'm not sure I'd want to test the practical limitations of the burden of proof on that sort of thing.

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Re:Fired employee deleted servers, causing it to lose S$918,000 by exe34 on Wednesday June 12, 2024 @04:26PM (#40662704)

probably easiest to buy a second hand laptop, do the thing and then low level format the disk with a hammer.

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Re:Fired employee deleted servers, causing it to lose S$918,000 by constantcrying on Wednesday June 12, 2024 @04:29PM (#40662734)

But you already committed the crime, surely that alone will be much worse than a completely unprovable charge of destruction of evidence.

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Re:Fired employee deleted servers, causing it to lose S$918,000 by ceejayoz on Wednesday June 12, 2024 @04:59PM (#40663056)

Some legal systems permit inference of guilt ("spoliation inference") based on attempts to destroy evidence; you might wind up with just extra convictions this way.

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Re:Fired employee deleted servers, causing it to lose S$918,000 by Spooky23 on Wednesday June 12, 2024 @03:47PM (#40662213)

For this individual, it's a little late to close the barn door.

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Re:Fired employee deleted servers, causing it to lose S$918,000 by proneb1rd on Wednesday June 12, 2024 @04:14PM (#40662557)

With SSD drive it’s enough to simply wipe the drive clean.

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