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		constantcrying on June 12, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Fired employee deleted servers, causing it to lose... But you already committed the crime, surely that alone will be much worse than a completely unprovable charge of destruction of evidence.

ceejayoz on June 12, 2024 [–]

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.

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