That poor slob in Britain is still trying to get permission to search the landfill for his bitcoins. Worth 250 million.
I can't think about how much that could wreck someone's life.
Even if he were to find the computer, the hard drive is probably way beyond any humanly possible recovery.
He better go to some therapy that helps him let it go...
The Ironkey guy has a better chance... even if I don't fully trust his story.
Eh, it's possible. If it was a glass/ceramic disk then the data can be recovered. Remember that OnTrak recovered data from a disk that came down through the fireball of Columbia and spent a few weeks in a swamp.
I've been doing some data recovery on MFM drives, the power of a Raspberry Pi to read the tracks in analog mode and tease out the data is stunning.
Meantime. Fed money printers go brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr
https://i.imgur.com/lEjMssF.mp4