Man who threw away $500M Bitcoin hard drive sues city for right to search landfill - eviltoast
  • 418_im_a_teapot@sh.itjust.works
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    2 months ago

    Who could you even trust to send the drive to? Anyone who could read it could take the money and just claim it couldn’t be recovered.

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      2 months ago

      I mean, companies exist specifically to do this for other big companies, I’m sure there are security procedures, background checks, NDAs and everything that needs to go with that.

    • weew@lemmy.ca
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      2 months ago

      Data recovery specialists exist, and nobody would pay for them if the data they were recovering wasn’t, you know, valuable enough to pay a specialist to maybe retrieve it. They probably deal with multimillion dollar industrial/financial/business secrets all the time, and do it discreetly, or else their business wouldn’t even exist.