Gifted a shiny new hardware, how many of you would jump at a chance to install it and test it? It has been three weeks since the server system was delivered to my friend but she has yet to pull the package open … .
Well, I am patient, if nothing else—and there are plenty else but only for the right people.
And while I am waiting for her reaction on installing, configuring, and running the server system, I have been hard at work retrieving data from encrypted and reformatted drives Phandeluys had thought fit to dispose of. [Yup, that’s me—the tallish and cute-looking guy sweeping up that box of hard drives, digital devices, and a laptop she had placed beside the trash bin.]
Most people think that by encrypting and then reformatting a hard drive that data become unreadable even if they are recoverable. I do not blame them for that popular belief but I should like to disabuse them of it. Personally, I would add sledgehammering as the last step in the encrypting-reformatting procedure, just so my mind would not stray into sleepless-nights territory wondering if somewhere, somehow, someone was reading and acting out my private fantasies.
One never knows. And certainty leads to peace of mind and happiness.
Anyway, seeing how I just went off on a tangent, I am dying to know what other blog posts Phandeluys had composed but did not get to publish before the original blog was shut down. Anything else is a bonus. Inquiring mind wants to know. And for those of you who must know, stay tune to see the latest capture from my daily challenge recovering those files.
A clarification and semi-disclaimer here: I would not classify this as challenging in comparison to my work in digital forensics and data retrieval. The challenge here is finding the encryption that was used on the drives and files … once I find that, the challenge is no more. Still, a partial challenge is a challenge and I never back down from one, in whatever shape and size.
Stay tuned, send me your complaints and documentation [if I use them in my posts, I promise to keep your information anonymous], and until next post,
We dream / We believe / And we will succeed.
About this blog
Excepting this introduction and the posts that are published after March 2015, this blog mirrored a now out-of-commission blog, http://ya-chang-lin.blogspot.com, which was taken down on October 21, 2013 by its author Phandeluys Truong.
The author's original contents and supporting documents were captured by multiple means from the above-mentioned blog while it was alive and active. There may have been a glitch here and there that prevented me from downloading the complete blog as it had existed. Thus, readers familiar with the original blog may find a few missing posts and/or comments. Those postings that I was able to grab and preserve in their entirety are reposted here under my name, however, all rights remain that of the original author.
This series of posts documents the fraudulent, sometimes criminal, and frequent unethical/immoral activities of Ya-Chang Robert Lin, a Taiwanese native of mainland Chinese parentage, who defrauded a naturalized US citizen, Phandeluys Truong, into a marriage that had been his shield against USCIS for his intentional violations of immigration law:
as a nonimmigrant F-1 student, he had willfully operated an international students recruiting business without prior work authorization from the then United States Immigration and Naturalization Service;
as President of said business, he had knowingly helped both mainland Chinese and Taiwanese students to evade military drafts in their countries by facilitating their applications to study in the US and abroad;
as President of said business, he had knowingly helped both mainland Chinese and Taiwanese students looking to enter the United States with the intention of gaining permanent US resident status under the pretense of studying;
as President of said business, he had purposely evaded paying taxes on the commissions received from it and failed to report the earned income to the IRS by having the payments wired back to Taiwan to his mother Chang Hsueh;
he had applied for reinstatement of his F-1 or student status and a change of status, while knowingly withheld the preceding facts on his own application for permanent resident and citizenship in the United States.
And those are just the tip of the iceberg.
Ya-Chang Robert Lin had been employed at AAFES or The Exchange headquarter in Dallas, Texas as an information technology auditor, where he managed to steal—by downloading to CDs that he kept in his personal possession while abiding for time and opportunities to "do business" in Taiwan and/or China—thousands of his colleagues’ Social Security numbers and personnel files while working on one of its HR projects. The HR data on one of these projects became the basis for an academic paper, speaking proposal for ISACA, and a consulting business he was "collaborating with " [more like conning other people into developing for him].
Ya-Chang Robert Lin is a reprobate with a seared conscience. Lacking normal capacity for empathy, remorse, and reciprocation of good will, he is addicted to lying, cheating, and stealing for the pure pleasures derived from being able to get away with it. Because he is such a good liar—so charming and well versed in manipulation techniques and acting skills—it is hard to distinguish him from reprobates.
Ya-Chang Robert Lin was able to dupe some of the smart people in federal government, higher education, and information technology auditing and security. Among his legacy: A son who refused any connection with him and wished that he were dead.
Well, I am patient, if nothing else—and there are plenty else but only for the right people.
And while I am waiting for her reaction on installing, configuring, and running the server system, I have been hard at work retrieving data from encrypted and reformatted drives Phandeluys had thought fit to dispose of. [Yup, that’s me—the tallish and cute-looking guy sweeping up that box of hard drives, digital devices, and a laptop she had placed beside the trash bin.]
Most people think that by encrypting and then reformatting a hard drive that data become unreadable even if they are recoverable. I do not blame them for that popular belief but I should like to disabuse them of it. Personally, I would add sledgehammering as the last step in the encrypting-reformatting procedure, just so my mind would not stray into sleepless-nights territory wondering if somewhere, somehow, someone was reading and acting out my private fantasies.
One never knows. And certainty leads to peace of mind and happiness.
Anyway, seeing how I just went off on a tangent, I am dying to know what other blog posts Phandeluys had composed but did not get to publish before the original blog was shut down. Anything else is a bonus. Inquiring mind wants to know. And for those of you who must know, stay tune to see the latest capture from my daily challenge recovering those files.
A clarification and semi-disclaimer here: I would not classify this as challenging in comparison to my work in digital forensics and data retrieval. The challenge here is finding the encryption that was used on the drives and files … once I find that, the challenge is no more. Still, a partial challenge is a challenge and I never back down from one, in whatever shape and size.
Stay tuned, send me your complaints and documentation [if I use them in my posts, I promise to keep your information anonymous], and until next post,
We dream / We believe / And we will succeed.
About this blog
Excepting this introduction and the posts that are published after March 2015, this blog mirrored a now out-of-commission blog, http://ya-chang-lin.blogspot.com, which was taken down on October 21, 2013 by its author Phandeluys Truong.
The author's original contents and supporting documents were captured by multiple means from the above-mentioned blog while it was alive and active. There may have been a glitch here and there that prevented me from downloading the complete blog as it had existed. Thus, readers familiar with the original blog may find a few missing posts and/or comments. Those postings that I was able to grab and preserve in their entirety are reposted here under my name, however, all rights remain that of the original author.
This series of posts documents the fraudulent, sometimes criminal, and frequent unethical/immoral activities of Ya-Chang Robert Lin, a Taiwanese native of mainland Chinese parentage, who defrauded a naturalized US citizen, Phandeluys Truong, into a marriage that had been his shield against USCIS for his intentional violations of immigration law:
as a nonimmigrant F-1 student, he had willfully operated an international students recruiting business without prior work authorization from the then United States Immigration and Naturalization Service;
as President of said business, he had knowingly helped both mainland Chinese and Taiwanese students to evade military drafts in their countries by facilitating their applications to study in the US and abroad;
as President of said business, he had knowingly helped both mainland Chinese and Taiwanese students looking to enter the United States with the intention of gaining permanent US resident status under the pretense of studying;
as President of said business, he had purposely evaded paying taxes on the commissions received from it and failed to report the earned income to the IRS by having the payments wired back to Taiwan to his mother Chang Hsueh;
he had applied for reinstatement of his F-1 or student status and a change of status, while knowingly withheld the preceding facts on his own application for permanent resident and citizenship in the United States.
And those are just the tip of the iceberg.
Ya-Chang Robert Lin had been employed at AAFES or The Exchange headquarter in Dallas, Texas as an information technology auditor, where he managed to steal—by downloading to CDs that he kept in his personal possession while abiding for time and opportunities to "do business" in Taiwan and/or China—thousands of his colleagues’ Social Security numbers and personnel files while working on one of its HR projects. The HR data on one of these projects became the basis for an academic paper, speaking proposal for ISACA, and a consulting business he was "collaborating with " [more like conning other people into developing for him].
Ya-Chang Robert Lin is a reprobate with a seared conscience. Lacking normal capacity for empathy, remorse, and reciprocation of good will, he is addicted to lying, cheating, and stealing for the pure pleasures derived from being able to get away with it. Because he is such a good liar—so charming and well versed in manipulation techniques and acting skills—it is hard to distinguish him from reprobates.
Ya-Chang Robert Lin was able to dupe some of the smart people in federal government, higher education, and information technology auditing and security. Among his legacy: A son who refused any connection with him and wished that he were dead.
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