Software safes

If they keep it, they have to keep it for quite some time. The trick is
to not keep any.

I used to help run an ISP and one day plod turned up at the office
asking what kind of logs we kept on our web proxies. Quickly realising
what kind of arse-ache and expense this could lead to, "None from now
on" was the answer.

 

Probably require a court order due to the Data Protection Act.

 

You think?

Poking around somebody elses computer without passwords or permission
could easily fall under the computer misuse act, whereas wiping it and
putting a clean install of applications would simply be a case of
following the widely accepted best practice of preparing a secondhand
machine for re-use.

 

Hmm, depending on the person in question's partner's will (or not) the
laptop may be theirs fairly soon. Perhaps they should wait until probate
or letters of administration have been granted. A very *nice* point of
law could come up indeed. Can you leave data to someone else, or more to
the point without specific instructions that it shouldn't be, what
should become of it after a person's death?




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Even when the somebody else in question is dead, as per the OP?

 

That would get my vote.

 

Quite!

 

Is the correct answer.
This is what ISP's have been trying to resist, a vast collection of ever
expanding log files.
Obviously some of the Retail ISP's do already keep certain logs.
I don't want my ISP keeping a damn thing TBH

 

Send it to NCIS, they will have it cracked before you can drink a CafPow.

 

In which case pass it straight to plod. I am no expert in these matters
but from what I have been told to think by My BBC these types operate in
clandestine secret gangs and there is at least 20 of them in your street.
They need catching and they need castrating, get it done quick and it gets
cheaper.

 

"The evil that men do lives after them..."

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Assuming they inherited the computer probably not.

 

People die, but a Geocities homepage lives on forev... Oh.

 

The activities are nothing, as far as we know so far, illegal, it
seems that the bloke was getting into a pretty heavy swinging scene,
he left all sorts of photos and videos on the laptop showing him
engaged in just about every sort of activity imaginable, all with
consensual participants of both sexes, given the apparent ages of the
other participants, he had no interest in young people.
What has really pissed my friend off is that she thought they were
having an exclusive relationship and he showed no sign of any other
activity. There was no financial connection between them so that's not
a problem.

 

In communiqué

Wipe it then - no doubts.
"Long ago it must be. I have a photograph. Preserve your memories.
They're all that's left you."


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/me looks serene

Coo, Catman getting all wise and Jedi-like. Did I

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They won't unless you can convince them you are the account owner.

Unlikely IME.


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I'm a amused that so many people think plod *could* crack any (sensible)
codes. Let alone bother (unknown circumstances notwithstanding,
probable cause etc)

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That would very much fall under my definition of real need.

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It's encrypted. This will take a little longer......

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