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Comment by constantcrying | Hacker News Reader

>full disk encryption is a thing.

Just actually get rid of the evidence. Throw your laptop into a shredder and buy a new one. At least get a new hard drive.

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I can't speak for Singapore's specifics, but outright destroying evidence is often its own crime.

For this individual, it's a little late to close the barn door.

Good luck proving it!

In a country where possession of chewing gum is illegal and 14 grams of heroin geets you a death sentence, I'm not sure I'd want to test the practical limitations of the burden of proof on that sort of thing.

probably easiest to buy a second hand laptop, do the thing and then low level format the disk with a hammer.

But you already committed the crime, surely that alone will be much worse than a completely unprovable charge of destruction of evidence.

Some legal systems permit inference of guilt ("spoliation inference") based on attempts to destroy evidence; you might wind up with just extra convictions this way.

Intent: thinking through this from a problem-solving perspective. Don't do this crap, kids, lest ye end up in prison or worse.

Or at least do a full wipe (including backups) and reinstall. "Here's my FDE key, but I erased everything after I left that place and I don't have their stuff anymore."

Use a throwaway disk or device, get rid of that and leave the official one alone.

I discourage this behavior but there could be many cases when this could be useful.

With SSD drive it’s enough to simply wipe the drive clean.

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