Veterans data recovered

From : electrician

Q: the fbi announced today that the laptop computer containing information about millions of veterans and some active duty personnel has been recovered. i quote from their press release a preliminary inspection indicated that the data which included social security numbers dates of birth and other sensitive information potentially on active-duty military service members as well as veterans has not been touched or copied the fbi said in a statement. a more thorough forensic investigation is under way. uh okay as a veteran im happy theyve recovered our data. but how exactly do they know the data wasnt copied .

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From : jph

electrician wrote the fbi announced today that the laptop computer containing information about millions of veterans and some active duty personnel has been recovered. i quote from their press release a preliminary inspection indicated that the data which included social security numbers dates of birth and other sensitive information potentially on active-duty military service members as well as veterans has not been touched or copied the fbi said in a statement. a more thorough forensic investigation is under way. uh okay as a veteran im happy theyve recovered our data. but how exactly do they know the data wasnt copied glad to hear they got it back! i dont know how they can prove it wasnt copied but theres a lot i dont know about computers like how you can delete files and yet they can still be recovered. maybe they could confirm that the computer was never turned on after it was stolen therefore the probability the hard drive was copied is low. i read today that the person that was fired for taking the laptop home had written permission to do so so they may have unfairly dismissed him. john .

From : lint radley

well its not 100% tamper-proof but most computer file systems keep a log of when files were created last accessed and last modified. so they should be able to see and date and time of when it was last accessed. like i said earlier however its not tamper-proof. so no guarantees. imho the laptop was probably stolen because the thief wanted a laptop not the data that was on it. lets hope at least. hope this clears things up. -lint electrician wrote the fbi announced today that the laptop computer containing information about millions of veterans and some active duty personnel has been recovered. i quote from their press release a preliminary inspection indicated that the data which included social security numbers dates of birth and other sensitive information potentially on active-duty military service members as well as veterans has not been touched or copied the fbi said in a statement. a more thorough forensic investigation is under way. uh okay as a veteran im happy theyve recovered our data. but how exactly do they know the data wasnt copied .

From : nirodac

you dont need to boot the laptop up to a windows os to copy the disk drive. there are programs that operate at the dos level like nortons ghost that will create a complete image of the disk and copy it to a jump drive usb port. you can recover delete files because they are never deleted. windows simply removes there directory entry pointer then makes the disk space available for future use. if you want to completely delete your files you need to over write their location on the disk drive. lint radley scanomatic@forwardbounding.com wrote in well its not 100% tamper-proof but most computer file systems keep a log of when files were created last accessed and last modified. so they should be able to see and date and time of when it was last accessed. like i said earlier however its not tamper-proof. so no guarantees. imho the laptop was probably stolen because the thief wanted a laptop not the data that was on it. lets hope at least. hope this clears things up. -lint electrician wrote the fbi announced today that the laptop computer containing information about millions of veterans and some active duty personnel has been recovered. i quote from their press release a preliminary inspection indicated that the data which included social security numbers dates of birth and other sensitive information potentially on active-duty military service members as well as veterans has not been touched or copied the fbi said in a statement. a more thorough forensic investigation is under way. uh okay as a veteran im happy theyve recovered our data. but how exactly do they know the data wasnt copied .