jayrhacker

Web sites and pages come and go, but the search engine indices are forever. The Internet Archive, for example, uses data from a search engine crawler to populate their archive of the internet (until Alexa was shut down by Amazon, they do their own crawling now). Google likely has a lot of old internet data in archives as well.

Wish I didn't think laws like that were a good idea, but after dealing with the ex-wife's psychotic episode and threats to kill our child I did some digging and discovered that maternal infanticide is terrifyingly not as rare, and that it's generally not counted as "murder" for statistics purpose (many countries have separate statutes which cover it).

Over the course of your life the people most likely to kill you are: yourself, your mother, your father, some step parent, some random person. Though if you make it to 5-6 years the parents stop being as big a threat.

Before capitalism there was feudalism and more basic market economies organized around market towns. Before you get to that level of density (i.e. purely agrarian or hunter gatherer societies) we generally see gift economies, which has been the default economic system for the majority of human history.

Ok, let's use the electric chair and let the priest touch him.

True, but if all the data was encrypted, then the drive formatted it would require physically dismantling an HDD in a clean room to recover data, for SSDs the wear leveling makes it hard to fully erase anything, but again, after encrypting and formatting the cost of the tools needed to get the data back are well above the potential benefit (i.e. there are easier ways to get people's personal info)

One round rock salt, one bird shot, one buck shot, nothing bug slugs after that.

Proof of the Parrotnormal perhaps…

I worked for one of the YouTube founders once, killed me when he explained how they benchmarked all the Copyright detection software available at the time and then picked the worst one to use for their licensing system.

I'm sure the invasive Lampreys will have fun with them

It was also used during prohibition, and courts do more than discourage it, you can be held in contempt for mentioning it.

It's a civil suit, they could still be on the hook for criminal charges.

Why not? I've got a hard drive which I lost the keys to I'd like to recover, and having all the old secrets out in the open would be really interesting.