Chinese publication HKEPC reported that Chinese authorities caught a smuggler trying to sneak almost $32,000 worth of SSD through customs.
Offsite backup. However it ran into a security problem.
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?
“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?
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
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
Abdominal Backup System (ABS)
Actually he didn’t get arrested because of the SSDs, what got him in trouble was 420 TB of Winnie the pooh pictures.
Of which 96.7% are rule 34 artistic renderings.
You would have thought he would have been fast enough to outrun the cops.
