Accused ATM Skimmer Eats His Own Flash Drive
Accused ATM Skimmer Eats His Own Flash Drive
Posted 03/03/2010 at 12:59pm
| by Bart Salisbury
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Everyone wants security and reliability in their flash drive, until that security and reliability become a problem. Stuck with a flash drive in his possession, possibly containing incriminating evidence, Florin Necula resorted to his only viable option: he swallowed it.
According to a U.S. District Court filing, Necula, who was suspected of ATM skimming, and in the custody of the Secret Service, “grabbed Subject Flash Drive 2, which had been on his person at the time of his arrest, and swallowed.” Apparently the drive didn’t agree with Necula who, after four days, still hadn’t passed the device. (No port incompatibility comments, if you please.) Doctors recommended removal, which Necula agreed to.
But did the drive survive? No word on that from the Secret Service. And the flash drive maker, Kingston, reports that they don’t know if stomach acid could damage the device, as they have no experience with people swallowing their flash drives.
Necula’s reward for his quick thinking? A charge of obstruction of justice, to go along with the other three felony indictments he faces for ATM skimming.
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Mighty BOB!
March 04, 2010 at 5:28pm
Heh, if it still worked that would be a nice bit of propaganda for Kingston to make use of.
Caboose
March 05, 2010 at 7:56am
I'd call it possible marketing, and not propaganda...
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Zazubovich
March 04, 2010 at 12:57pm
his task bar for the little green check mark that says it is okay to remove the USB device.
QuakindudeMod
March 04, 2010 at 4:48am
Can you imagine the jail scene here?
Bubba: "Hey boy. You sure look purty in them tight jeans."
Necula: "But I've got a secured port right now!"
Bubba: "Hey, what's this thing on the end of my Cockadoodle?"
Necula: "What a shitty way to recover my data."
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gendoikari1
March 03, 2010 at 8:19pm
I wonder if anyone tested the drive after Blacula shat it out. I don't think anyone would want their computer to smell like crap.
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nekollx
March 03, 2010 at 3:14pm
ironicaly now Kingston has another stres tess they can add to bulletpoints of future drives
*Can survive stomace acidi without data coruption
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Cruzg10
March 03, 2010 at 2:35pm
I wonder what the transfer speeds are from Stomach to Anus. Are they faster than Sata Speeds?? Do they meet the USB 3.0 Specifications
Tekzel
March 03, 2010 at 2:24pm
Crime doesn't pay... but it can give you a severe case of indigestion.
Caboose
March 03, 2010 at 2:33pm
You win bad joke of the hour! (just incase there are others that are worse than yours)
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Caboose
March 03, 2010 at 1:43pm
He must have lacked proper drivers. His hardware didn't know what to do with the drive (See, wasn't port incompatibility, was overall hardware *snerk*)
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winmaster
March 03, 2010 at 2:25pm
You beat me to it.
Besides, port incompatibility jokes only apply to genitals.
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snark
March 03, 2010 at 2:45pm
According to the American Heritage Science Dictionary: The definition of a port is:
A place where data can pass into or out of a central processing unit, computer, or peripheral. With central processing units, a port is a fixed set of connections for incoming and outgoing data or instructions. With computers and peripherals, a port is generally a socket into which a connector can be plugged.
I would think that passing data (a flash drive) into or out of the body would be painful, no matter what 'port' was used.
frizzly
March 04, 2010 at 9:00pm
If he could not afford an incrypted drive, maybe he was innocent after all.. LOL
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