Forensics Tech: Austrian Teen's Captor Used Old Computer, Complicates Investigation

["Fergie" <fergdawg () netzero net>]

This is rather interersting story...

Via SFGate.com (AP).

[snip]

Police combing through the house where Natascha Kampusch was held
captive for 8 1/2 years said Tuesday they made an unusual discovery:
Her captor, a communications technician, used an obsolete computer —
and his odd choice now threatens to complicate their investigation.

Maj. Gen. Gerhard Lang of the Federal Criminal Investigations Bureau
said kidnapper Wolfgang Priklopil, who killed himself by jumping in
front of a train within hours of Kampusch's escape on Aug. 23, relied
exclusively on a Commodore 64 computer — a model popular in the 1980s
but now considered an antique.

Lang told reporters the outmoded computer would complicate
investigators' efforts to transfer files for closer examination later,
saying it would be difficult "to transmit the data to a modern computer
without loss."

[snip]

More:
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2006/09/05/international/i120930D84.DTL

- ferg


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