Arrest of Taiwan Ex-president: why it is crucial to have a high tech friend

The ex-president Taiwan was arrested Nov 11,2008.

He was charged with embezzling hundreds of millions of dollars.

Well, I am commenting on if he is guilty or not. What I want to comment is:

It is important to have a high tech friend.

During the investigation, the prosecutors found a laptop from the ex-president's house. They found lots of evidence about how they have "stolen" the money and moved them to overseas.

Well, he is not stupid. Nobody would believe he would be stupid enough to keep all the records while being investigated. As a matter of fact it is said that he already asked his aides to delete all the files. What his aides did? I guess they just delete all the files to the recycle bin and them emptied it.

The problem is: your data are still in the hard drive. THEY HAVE NOT DISAPPEARED YET. Many recovery soft wares will be able to get the data back. That is what the prosecutors did!

I am by no means supporting Chen's embezzlement. What I want to comment is: it is important to have a high tech friend to offer valuable advices. Were he got a high tech friend, he would have destroyed the hard drive. Compared to hundreds of millions of dollars, a hard drive is nothing. Why keep it if it is hard to totally destroy the data?

By the way, as a smart and high tech person, my friendship has been fully claimed yet. You are welcome to claim some.