"this guy came to report a missing wallet, let's add him to the list of the suspects" - what kind of reasoning is this???
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I mean, I feel like that's classic cop reasoning....
Police reasoning, d'uh.
Certifying to become a police officer requires less hours than finishing a Street Fighter game.
Also: 30+ years for rape? While rape is a hateful crime, usually people don't get all that prison time for that.
That's what you get when you're poor, black and homeless?
The other unjustly accused guy, who was black but not poor and not homeless got much less time and went out of prison twenty years ago
And if you're rich, white and and a student athlete at Stanford you only get 6 months in jail.
He wasn't imprisoned for 30+ years. He got 7 years and was out after 5. He was, in his own words, 'locked up in [his mind]' for 30+ years.
Huh now that I re read the article I noticed it.
I misread it
Rapists should be locked up for life, not 30 years and definitely not 6 months. Given of course that there's actual concrete evidence for it.
Many murderers murder openly and don't get any jail time at all. Cause they are elected politicians.
Other than that - the purpose of the penitentiary system is not to punish people, it's to redeem them. At least in theory. You don't have any right to punish other people (well, an eye for an eye may do, if there's no other way, but that's the worst that's acceptable), especially with such intentional destruction as a life sentence.
So your very approach is criminal intent.
7 years is a loong time. Where were you 7 years ago? Imagine all the time since then in the same jail cell. Every day, over and over.
From the article here's the link to a news story about the wrongful conviction:
What a cool tech story. What a heartbreaking human story.
The price for that GREASEWEAZLE is really good, around just 25 euro! Anyone ever tried it? I have two floppies that have sentimental value for me. One is from elementary school, I wanted to do a backup five years ago with an USB drive and fucking Windows Defender "cleaned" a boot virus by quick formatting the drive. The USB drive ignored the status of the "read only" tab and allowed that. I wasn't able to recover the data with any data recovery software (it shows empty because the MBR has gone) but the data is there, visible with an hex editor from a full image
The other is from middle school but there's a zip file that I can't copy because of a damaged sector. I would still be pointless, right?
It works on a different level than a lot of tools. You need an actual floppy drive to hook it to, but it records the raw flux data on the disc. That's the layer "below" a filesystem.
There are then tools that will convert the flux image into a filesystem that can be mounted or modified with disc image editing tools.
This thing sounds "right up my ally". When I can justify the purchase...
I just recovered an entire 6tb drive that was accidentally formatted using HDDSuperClone from a linuxlive USB.
Pretty much make the live usb and boot into Linux. Open "DMDE" to view the files on the formatted USB and copy it to another drive.
I’m not sure why the data recovery software isn’t working given that you can see it with a hex editor. I mean, it’s been 35 years and change since I fired up Norton Utilities, but it sounds like the data should be recoverable as long as it hasn’t been overwritten, and even then it should be partially recoverable.
Whether a partial recovery is useful depends entirely on the type of file. The zip file might be dead but there might be a recovery path there, too.
It’s not a lot of money to give it a shot, but maybe also talk to the linux users group at your closest university or posting to communities that are populated by people who get into the low level stuff. If it’s for a system that was popular at the time (Apple, Amiga, some types of PCs), you might be able to find a retro computing hobbyist community directly. We’d do stuff like that in exchange for beer when I was in college.
Give testdisk a run. I've had pretty good luck with it and it's FOSS
Absolutely great work. Never would have even considered a steno.