Did FreeRepublic.com destroy evidence

[Gman]

when they scrubbed the site of Dan Roeder's posts?

Inquiring minds would like to know. Maybe so would the FBI.

[skooooo]

1. If it's been on a computer..

...you really can't destroy it.

[malaise]

14. Karl Rove did

:evilgrin:

[LiberalFighter]

2. Too many traces left.

The server. The internet.

Ghost come back to haunt them.

[Junkdrawer]

3. Maybe not...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=5763986&mesg_id=5763986

[patrice]

4. The only way to do that "completely" would be to physically destroy the server(s) and even then

you'd have the tracks to and from those servers left in the internet.

[WeDidIt]

7. I can erase any file to be unrecoverable

http://www.fileshredder.org/

IT takes time, but I don't need to destroy a computer. Hell, even destroying a computer won't necessarily remove the data from a hard drive.

Cached data on the internet is a whole other ball of wax.

[onehandle]

5. Yes. Seize their servers now, AG Holder. nt

[NightWatcher]

6. sounds like they made an attempt to do so.

let's find the posts that are floating around the ether AND punish FR for trying to cover up

[wyldwolf]

8. archive.org

[Wednesdays]

9. K&R

:kick:

[no limit]

10. Unless they were part of the murder or if a legal order is provided for the information

they can delete whatever the hell they wish. It's their web site. Sucks in this case but that's what makes the internet so great.

[ColbertWatcher]

11. Does the Pope shit in the woods? n/t

[pacalo]

13. Possibly.

:evilgrin:

[ColbertWatcher]

16. LOL! I have that hat! n/t

[tinrobot]

12. After he was arrested, wasn't his one phone call to them?

If so, they cooperated with a man under arrest for murder by taking down those posts.

I hope they simply took the posts off the internet to save their servers from getting overloaded. If they completely destroyed the data, then they're in deep trouble for destroying evidence.

[mamaleah]

15. Not according to this DU post

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x5763986#5765710


Post 34. It was a thread about Scott Roeder's post on Operation Rescue's website.