Porn exec smack

[DesertFox]

Former Newsday publisher Robert Johnson faces up to 30 years in prison after pleading guilty yesterday to collecting kiddie porn on his office computer and then trying to destroy the evidence when the feds caught up with him.

Johnson, a 60-year-old married father of two grown children, admitted he downloaded at least two child-pornography movie files - including one called "Real Child Rape" - in the headquarters of a Manhattan financial publishing firm where he was CEO.

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[Riverboat]

In May 2004 after investigators contacted the company - and he learned of the probe - Johnson obliterated more than 12,000 files from his hard disks That's a LOT of kiddie porn. And that's just the amount he jettisoned before he got caught. I will never understand the mentality of someone who gets his jollies looking at this.

[DoctorDoom]

Did he actually "obliterate" the files or just deceive himself that deleting them removes them? It doesn't. I have software that I used to recover hundreds of photos of my grandkids when it became necessary to use the system recovery option on my son's computer after a virus. It "deleted" everything on his desktop, but the software dug the files out.

And it will find deleted files on a digital camera memory card, even after a "format", unless they were overwritten by another image.

The 99.99999% effective deletion method is a DOD-level file shredder. That requires extremely difficult forensic analysis and even then it's hit and miss.

The 100% certain method is using a removable hard drive tray and taking a sledgehammer to it.