[Dataloss] (article) "We recovered the laptop!" ... so what?

[B.K. DeLong]

We should come up with a canned response to send spokespeople anytime
they're quoted in an article as saying the laptop was recovered and
"it appeared none of the data was affected".

On 2/12/07, Max Hozven <mhozven at tealeaf.com> wrote:
> Or boot up on a Symantec Ghost boot disk, then blast the data over to a
> network drive or a connected USB drive.
>
> -Max
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: dataloss-bounces at attrition.org
> [mailto:dataloss-bounces at attrition.org] On Behalf Of sawaba
> Sent: Sunday, February 11, 2007 9:09 PM
> To: blitz
> Cc: dataloss at attrition.org
> Subject: Re: [Dataloss] (article) "We recovered the laptop!" ... so
> what?
>
> You don't even have to mess with mirroring it. You can create a Linux
> boot
> disk, specifically set up with scripts that search for juicy data, and
> then upload them to your server over Wi-Fi. On a fairly new laptop, you
> should have data (if there's any data to be had) within 30 minutes.
> You'll
> be done in an hour or two unless there is a huge amount of data you want
>
> to grab.
>
> And because you are mounting the Fat32 or NTFS volume read-only, no
> dates
> (or any other data for that matter) are changed. Ta-da, look ma, noone
> touched it.
>
> --Sawaba
>
> On Sat, 10 Feb 2007, blitz wrote:
>
> > How much trouble to set the date and time before the copy as well? and
> then
> > back?
> > Love USB 2.0....
> > As you and I know, mirroring the drive makes no changes  to it. I
> think
> > they're blowing smoke out their posterior porthole, HOPING it wasn't
> > accessed. Sure the screws weren't tampered with....right...ever seen a
> nylon
> > screwdriver? Ive got a toolbox with perhaps a dozen, regular, Phillips
> and
> > Roberts.
> >
> > At 00:15 2/10/2007, you wrote:
> >> Wow, I've done my share of forensic investigations, and for the FBI
> to
> >> make this kind of claim is more than a little embarrassing. I
> remember
> >> reading the story when it originally came out, rolling my eyes, and
> moving
> >> on.
> >>
> >> Now that I take a closer look, it seems even more ridiculous, in part
> >> thanks to their official press release:
> >> http://www.fbi.gov/pressrel/pressrel06/laptop071306.htm
> > --snip
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