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Title: Las Vegas shooter's laptop missing its hard drive
Source: ABC News
URL Source: http://abcnews.go.com/US/las-vegas- ... g-hard-drive/story?id=50709285
Published: Oct 25, 2017
Author: Jack Date, Mike Levine, Pierre Thomas
Post Date: 2017-10-25 14:48:35 by nolu chan
Keywords: None
Views: 7164
Comments: 85

Las Vegas shooter's laptop missing its hard drive

By Jack Date
Mike Levine
Pierre Thomas
ABC News
Oct 25, 2017, 12:15 PM ET

A laptop computer recovered from the Las Vegas hotel room where Stephen Paddock launched the deadliest mass shooting in U.S. history was missing its hard drive, depriving investigators of a potential key source of information on why he killed and maimed so many people, ABC News has learned.

Paddock is believed to have removed the hard drive before fatally shooting himself, and the missing device has not yet been recovered, sources told ABC News.

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#2. To: nolu chan, Willie Green (#0)

The hard drive might have been removed well before the massacre. To monitor his video cameras and do casual web browsing, he could do it all with a Linux LiveCD or memory stick.

Tooconservative  posted on  2017-10-25   17:39:21 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#5. To: Tooconservative (#2)

The hard drive might have been removed well before the massacre. To monitor his video cameras and do casual web browsing, he could do it all with a Linux LiveCD or memory stick.

You've thought this one out, huh? Why connect dots that aren't there? Even you are stretching on this.

Why would someone so supposely cold-blooded and unemotional give flying eff about his hard drive contents? "Embarrassment"?

Why not also then consider David Copperfield's involvement? Penn and Teller?

Or, how about THIS:

Paddock is a patsy?...

...And this was and still is an Op. Or is that as impossible as 911 being an Op? Or JFK?

Liberator  posted on  2017-10-25   18:49:39 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#7. To: Liberator (#5)

Paddock was locked in and alone in the room.

If you aren't aware of it, disassembling laptops and removing their hard drives and reassembling them takes some time. Even someone who is fast would take at least a half hour, I think.

Paddock was smart enough to know it is better to leave no tracks. With a LiveCD, you can be sure there are no cookies, not hidden supercookies, no viruses, no trojans or remote control botnet programs, etc.

Lots of paranoid people use old laptops this way with a LiveCD. Or they use a USB memory stick, either locked (so nothing is saved) or unlocked and set up to function exactly as a hard drive would work.

Paddock seems determined to leave behind no evidence and leave a lot of questions, to remain a man of mystery and murder. He was planning for post-massacre fame.

Tooconservative  posted on  2017-10-25   19:16:02 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#11. To: Tooconservative, Liberator (#7)

disassembling laptops and removing their hard drives and reassembling them takes some time. Even someone who is fast would take at least a half hour, I think.

I'm guessing that you've never used a bump fire rifle to open up a laptop? It's not like he was trying to preserve the data for future generations. He could smash it an' bash it, whatever it takes.

What with government incompetence and all, it took the FBI/Fusion Center team two weeks or so to "lose" the hard drive. The private sector is much more efficient.

The Fusion Team has come up with so many tall tales, that it's difficult to believe their latest lone wolf stories anymore. Why bother to take out the HD, just lose the whole laptop?

Hondo68  posted on  2017-10-25   21:00:56 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#13. To: hondo68 (#11)

I'm guessing that you've never used a bump fire rifle to open up a laptop? It's not like he was trying to preserve the data for future generations. He could smash it an' bash it, whatever it takes.

He was using the laptop to watch his security camera(s) that were planted on that maid's cart out in the hallway. So it had to be a working laptop.

No way he had time to fire the volleys, then disassemble/reassemble the laptop, find some way to dispose of the hard drive (not easy).

A LiveCD or a tiny bootable USB flash drive could be crushed with his hammer (we know he had one), and then the pieces flung out one of his broken windows. Or flushed down his toilet.

My explanation is quite reasonable. You OTOH are raving like a drunken kook.

Tooconservative  posted on  2017-10-25   21:07:45 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#14. To: Tooconservative (#13)

You OTOH are raving like a drunken kook.

Chill out, it's the fusion boys story of a missing HD that I'm running with. Yeah, it doesn't make good sense. With an IP video cam/server you don't need much in the way of data storage to see the picture. Our border surveillance setup was pretty simple. In any case, he may have destroyed the stored data near the end, when it became certain that there was no escape, and time was running out fast.

It probably was an external drive/thumbdrive. He could have removed the built in HD long ago, and just booted up off of the external drive/stick with it's own OS? But that makes the "missing HD" story even more goofy.

Hondo68  posted on  2017-10-25   21:49:02 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#15. To: hondo68, Willie Green (#14)

It probably was an external drive/thumbdrive. He could have removed the built in HD long ago, and just booted up off of the external drive/stick with it's own OS? But that makes the "missing HD" story even more goofy.

No, it would still be missing. But maybe it is missing because it was an old laptop he used for untrackable purchases and unmonitored use of internet.

Let's say he had an old laptop, the drive fails. He removes the hard drive to see what's wrong, then just decides to use it for a VPN for the internet, web browser, all-around stealthy uses.

And a LiveCD is as reliable and as discreet or more discreet than a USB stick (which can be hacked). The LiveCD could be put in a bag and smashed into tiny pieces with his hammer. Then just wrap the little pieces (1-2" square each) in toilet paper and flush them down in 3-4 flushes. Bam, all the evidence that he used a LiveCD would be gone. The same would hold true for a bootable USB drive of course. Or he could just smash a LiveCD into tiny pieces and throw them out the window. As incompetent as this investigation has been, we can't assume that the FBI would have noticed the CD fragments among the glass fragments from the windows he knocked out to shoot from.

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