****in roommate

[swaggy853]

there is a long story to this so ill try to keep it short. My friend worked for unl housing and had a computer where he worked. While he wasnt working one day a housing person found the computer and took it and turned it into the police. It has some decent hardware encryption pieces on it and the housing guy and the police are both stumped at this point. They called him up this morning and asked him to pick it up, but instead they wanted him to sign some consent forms and **** and they wanted him to boot it up for them so they could search it. He told them to **** off.

I know they can get a warrant to search it, and I'm sure someone somewhere could crack the encryption, tho pry not in this state.

Will they search his house if/when they get into it?

[David]

im confused... why did the guy take it to the cops.

[ali]

im confused... why did the guy take it to the cops.

[Kelvin]

wow if the cops cant break the encryption then who will? TEH KELVIN


im assuming you have pictures of underage girls/beastiality/illegal drugs on yours or something incriminating at home. id say bury it all till its clear.

[dsmdarryl]

take a magnet to that ****

[turbodaytona87]

bring in a giant speaker and swipe it over the laptop a few times before logging on lol

[swaggy853]

They took it cause he wasnt supposed to leave personal possessions there, and it had a rather large wireless adapter on it. They thought he was running an access point with it, but it was only plugged into power.

[swaggy853]

wow if the cops cant break the encryption then who will? TEH KELVIN


im assuming you have pictures of underage girls/beastiality/illegal drugs on yours or something incriminating at home. id say bury it all till its clear.

not that, just LOTS of media, several hundred DVDs+2TB stored.

its a desktop so i dunno how a magnet would work, dont you have to have a big ****ing magnet to **** with a hard drive?

[JesterMX6]

um...all it takes is a magnet the size of one of your 6.5" speakers and an open case.

you'll lose the media forever with that method though.

[swaggy853]

I dont wanna lost my ****, the drive in that computer could go bye bye tho that would be nice. It does have some of my **** in it.

[JesterMX6]

well taking amagnet to a drive destroys it.

if you want it gone.

bury it somewhere.

[BOORAH]

Yeah just tap it with a magnet.

[BossRoss]

yes there are people in nebraska who can decrypt it. still not seeing why the police took it. and are still holding it. if all he was using it for was power. just have him show how he uses it. unless like said before there is something worse going on.

[STOK5OH]

Tell him STOK5OH said "get an attorney,now."

[grand-master]

**** the police!!

[95gsx]

Tell him STOK5OH said "get an attorney,now."

There are guide lines to holding personal property. Consult attorney and sue em up.

[swaggy853]

well it is "under investigation" cause they think he was doing something illegal, but they cant prove it so they are pissed. They wont even let him see it at this point.

[turbodaytona87]

yeah I would consult a lawyer, I think UNL has some legal advisors up on the third floor of the union

[swaggy853]

At this point he is kicked out of UNL, no good. Maybe I can go consult them since that computer does have a few of my parts in it.

[Kelvin]

if they can't prove anything then case closed. I think he killed someone to btw where is he I need to speak to him.

[swaggy853]

well, that is as long as they dont get into the encryption. They tried to tell him that they wanted him to boot it up so he could get the MAC address off of it, he said ok, but then they wanted him to sign some **** and he said no.

I think its funny that my name was brought up to him cause I got caught for the same ****, I didnt have hardware encryption but he couldnt boot into my windows at all, he had to use a startup disc to even view the drive, and he saw what was on it. I went into his office as he was looking at it and told him I wanted my **** back and the little pussy handed it right over, I still got fired over the materials on it even tho the cops were never involved. I sat with judicial affairs for several hours saying I didnt do anything wrong before they decided to "agree to disagree."

This time the guy took it straight to the cops.

[turbodaytona87]

what was on it?

[David]

theres a term for this i just can't think of it... you wont' get it back without someone who knows more about the law... fat chance sueing the city over this... get a lawyer... get your laptop back.. wait too long and if they find a way in.... i assume the media you have on your computer isn't legit, so... between the fine you will pay for the illegal files which you will lose... it might be worth calling a lawyer tomorrow morning.

[Kelvin]

mac address on the laptop? they dont log that **** anyways?

[JesterMX6]

yes. they'd want the mac address so they can remove it from the approved newtork user list on campus.

[David]

that list is only good for 30 days i thought.

[BossRoss]

obviously there must be more going on if he got kicked out of UNL for it.

[JesterMX6]

that list is only good for 30 days i thought.

no. my ex gf just called me up the other day asking how to get her mac address cuz she needed to re-register it for this year.

i think it lasts all year.

[turbodaytona87]

yep lasts the year as far as I know, haven't had to re register mine yet

[swaggy853]

its a desktop, not a laptop, and if i remember right it has a raid 5 in it.

[Debo]

take hard drives out, go to store buy some cheap shitters and put them in :) police = teh gayz

[302fox5]

:hmm:take hard drives out, go to store buy some cheap shitters and put them in :) police = teh gayz

why didnt anything think of this already?

[swaggy853]

take hard drives out, go to store buy some cheap shitters and put them in :) police = teh gayz

Cause changing hard drives would have been real easy while the computer was in police custody, good call on that one.

[Debo]

oh...didnt know the cops had it, best guess would be get a magnet in there some way before they bypass all security and what not

[BOORAH]

Best call would've been giving a recommendation on time.
NOT 4 months after.