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Man who threw away $500M Bitcoin hard drive sues city for right to search landfill (www.techspot.com)

submitted 4 weeks ago by [email protected] to c/technology

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 weeks 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.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks 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.