Chinese publication HKEPC reported that Chinese authorities caught a smuggler trying to sneak almost $32,000 worth of SSD through customs.

  • @Molecular0079
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    281 year ago

    “Officer, I am telling you those are my ABS! I’ve just been hitting the gym a lot. Hey, don’t lift up my shirt.”

    How the hell did this guy think he was gonna bypass the scanner?

    • @AngryJadeRabbit
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      351 year ago

      Sometimes I wonder if these people are paid to do stupid shit like this knowing it’ll cause a distraction while the real smuggling operation is going through

      • FinalFallacy
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        51 year ago

        It’s the cost of doing business. You know you will be caught and you know how much they love to make big deals out of it, so… Adapt and overcome

      • @[email protected]
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        31 year ago

        Sometimes I wonder if these people are paid to do stupid shit like this knowing it’ll cause a distraction while the real smuggling operation is going through

        This makes the most sense to me. I was having trouble understanding the motive / risk-assessment, but this seems plausible. Thanks.

      • @Molecular0079
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        21 year ago

        Yep, you just made my comment way better XD

  • HSR🏴‍☠️
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    141 year ago

    Actually he didn’t get arrested because of the SSDs, what got him in trouble was 420 TB of Winnie the pooh pictures.

  • paper_clip
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    1 year ago

    Nothing beats the bandwidth of a ~~VW bus full of mag tape~~ man with SSDs taped to his stomach.

    Edit: You guys don’t have strike through markdown yet?

  • Vaggumon
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    61 year ago

    You would have thought he would have been fast enough to outrun the cops.

  • @arcadefx1
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    51 year ago

    Offsite backup. However it ran into a security problem.

  • fearout
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    41 year ago

    It’s weird that he’s smuggling just the cards by themselves. That’s potentially up to an exabyte of data. Can be either filled with something, or at least have something hidden among all that storage space.

    Would it really be worth it smuggling the cards alone that way?

    • BaroqueInMind
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      41 year ago

      More than likely he was smuggling in or out data for corporate espionage.

      • fearout
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        21 year ago

        Yeah, that’s what I’m thinking. Like, it feels like at least some shenanigans must be afoot :)

  • @LEDZeppelin
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    21 year ago

    That’s not how you can avoid dementia