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Smuggler Caught With 420 M.2 SSDs Strapped to His Stomach

3 years ago by L4sBot to c/technology

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Almost $32,000 worth of high-speed storage

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

Molecular0079 28 points 3 years 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?

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AngryJadeRabbit 35 points 3 years 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

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FinalFallacy 5 points 3 years 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

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some_guy 3 points 3 years 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.

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ApeNo1 4 points 3 years ago

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Molecular0079 2 points 3 years ago

Yep, you just made my comment way better XD

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RobotToaster 17 points 3 years ago

You could say, he was caught flashing.

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hsr 14 points 3 years ago

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

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FinalFallacy 6 points 3 years ago

Of which 96.7% are rule 34 artistic renderings.

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paper_clip 12 points 3 years 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?

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Vaggumon 6 points 3 years ago

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

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massive_bereavement 3 points 3 years ago

Should have smuggled some ram as well.

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Walter_Ego 6 points 3 years ago

blaze it

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arcadefx1 5 points 3 years ago

Offsite backup. However it ran into a security problem.

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fearout 4 points 3 years 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?

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BaroqueInMind 4 points 3 years ago

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

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fearout 2 points 3 years ago

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

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LEDZeppelin 2 points 3 years ago

That’s not how you can avoid dementia

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