Police and NRL Investigate Cap Breaches

[Foordy]

it all depends really on the licensing agreement.

if one of the conditions attached to a club holding a licence to compete in the NRL states that they have the power to seize any electronic devices associated with the club and/or player, then Manly don't have a leg to stand on.

if as usual the NRL were too incompetent to add that sort of thing in there then they may be able to legally refuse to turn them over

 

[tommy]

I hate to be that guy but could we change the thread title? Unless we are talking about the salary caps' pants.

 

[Morkel]

Not hard to replace hard drives/phones.

No but then you compare the logs on the phone to the logs from their carrier service, and you can tell pretty darn quick who has been hindering an investigation. Pretty sure the content of text messages, not just the metadata, is retained by carriers too, but may be wrong.

 

[Kimlo]

Not hard to replace hard drives/phones.

If you even do a single pass zero wipe of a HDD, the data is as good as gone forever no one can recover from that, a 3 or 7 pass wipe to be extra sure, and no one alive will be able to recover the data. However I read the post as Renegade saying there'll be a digital accounting trail through bank accounts and what not, that can't be deleted and any forensic accountant can easily go back and trace it.

 

[Fozz]

Isn't this basically the same as refusing a roadside breath test?

Mind you, with the whole Andrew Gee thing we can't really complain.

 

[Sproj]

Isn't this basically the same as refusing a roadside breath test?

Mind you, with the whole Andrew Gee thing we can't really complain.

Yeah but a breath test, you don't have time to burn whatever related documentation that needs to be burned.