FBI Believed Kim Dotcom Had A 'Doomsday Device'

[Princess Luna]

Sane people may be wondering why the New Zealand government utilized its elite counterterrorism unit to raid Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom’s mansion. And now, via the NZ Herald, we have our answer: the FBI actually believed Dotcom had a Dr. Strangelove-style “doomsday device” that was capable of wiping out all evidence of Internet piracy with the flick of a switch.

During a judicial review of the raid at the High Court at Auckland on Friday, raid supervisor Detective Inspector Grant Wormald testified that the FBI told him that Dotcom “carried a device with him to delete servers around the world” that could be set off within seconds from multiple computers, laptops and smartphones within Dotcom’s mansion.

Needless to say, no such device existed and the New Zealand Special Tactics Group came up empty in their search for it. In response to these revelations, Dotcom’s attorney Paul Davison called the raid on his client’s mansion “a woefully incompetent and inept performance by the New Zealand police at all stages and at all levels.”

In other words, it seems the only doomsday machines Dotcom possesses are his music videos.
http://www.bgr.com/2012/08/10/kim-dotcom-raid-fbi-feared-doomsday-device/

[¿Que?]

Not that such a device would be too difficult to come up with, though. I mean, if Dotcom was a pirate mastermind, I think he would have had such a device, no?

Or maybe he was just lazy...

[pluckedflowers]

If anyone finds it, let me know. I've got two days before facebook switches me to timeline and I still haven't figured out how to delete old posts en masse.

[Sasha]

Not that such a device would be too difficult to come up with, though. I mean, if Dotcom was a pirate mastermind, I think he would have had such a device, no?

Or maybe he was just lazy...


i actually have mates who can shout an codeword to their closed laptop that will instantly reformat their harddrive..

[#FF0000]

holy shit this is so dumb that the room is spinning or is it me who is spinning holy shit

[#FF0000]

If anyone finds it, let me know. I've got two days before facebook switches me to timeline and I still haven't figured out how to delete old posts en masse.

oh you can do this once you switch to timeline actually.

[Pretty Flaco]

If anyone finds it, let me know. I've got two days before facebook switches me to timeline and I still haven't figured out how to delete old posts en masse.

is facebook forcing everyone to switch to timeline?

[TheRedAnarchist23]

Covering up digital footsteps=Doomsday device?

I wonder what covering up phisical footsteps equals to.

[Ele'ill]

i actually have mates who can shout an codeword to their closed laptop that will instantly reformat their harddrive..

There's also a similar system you can make that melts your harddrive/magnetically destroys everything on it with the flip of a switch.

[The Douche]

I heard if you put one finger in the computer's power jack, and a fork in the outlet that it will bring down NORAD's computers, don't tell the FBI that I found out though.

[Ele'ill]

I heard if you put one finger in the computer's power jack, and a fork in the outlet that it will bring down NORAD's computers, don't tell the FBI that I found out though.

At the NORAD Headquarters though so the trick is sneaking in there with a fork.

[Prometeo liberado]

I have an old gameboy, a wooden nickel and some gum of questionable flavor. Can you teach me how to hack into the Credit Bureau with this?:crying:

[Positivist]

is facebook forcing everyone to switch to timeline?

Yea its a bourgiose conspiracy man. Maybe not the bourgiose conspiracy part, but they seriously force everyone.

[Ele'ill]

I have an old gameboy, a wooden nickel and some gum of questionable flavor. Can you teach me how to hack into the Credit Bureau with this?:crying:

No, but I can help you make a time machine with that

[campesino]

couldn't he have just tied all his hard drives to electromagnets that can be switched on at the flip of a switch, although that would be very expensive, it would be better than jailtime.

[Beeth]

holy shit this is so dumb that the room is spinning or is it me who is spinning holy shit

Probably LSD.

[PC LOAD LETTER]

I guess it's possible that he had some sort of mini-sorta-botnet thing going on, maybe all his servers were running software listening to a passworded IRC channel or something, where he could connect with his phone and issue a 'wipe' command that told the service running on the server to wipe the sensitive data on the server (but left the OS and everything intact, maybe just wipe the public_html folder on each server so there could be multiple passes). Or maybe he had a 'control' server that he could connect to and run a 'distributed wipe' service that would then automagically connect to all the megaupload servers via ssh and wipe the sensitive data. Either of these could be triggered from a phone with an internet connection.

I mean, really unlikely, but it's not impossible or anything ...

[Sasha]

found a picture of the doomsday device;
http://craphound.com/images/5Bcontingency.jpg

[Krano]

I heard if you put one finger in the computer's power jack, and a fork in the outlet that it will bring down NORAD's computers, don't tell the FBI that I found out though.
Or start a nuclear war by whistling into a pay phone.