I have spent a bit of time playing Uplink building up all my skill. Hacked a couple of banks, made off with just shy of 2 million, wasn't caught. Nice!! Went on a massive spending binge buying everything I can!! I'm now virtually invicible and no system's defences can keep me out :D Problem is, I no...

Oh.......Well, I was using v1 log deleter. Trying to save money. The first missions don't pay you enough. So upgrading is always tough for me. I'd bought the next Alpha gateway with the extra processor slot, and bought a new CPU. Spent ages saving money just to buy a hud connection thingy and all th...

Global Criminal Database!!!! In one of my missions, I couldn't even get into the system because they were tracing me WAY to fast even though I bouced the call through like 12 other systems. Anyway, I was caught.......months later. But this is impossible. Sure, I didn't delete the logs of the connect...

Kind of strange. In the past when I've bounced my connections around, I've always bounced a connection through InterNIC.

Then when my mission is complete i'd hack in and delete the logs.

But months down the line, I'd sometimes still get caught?

How is this possible?

Is destroying a computer system a good way of covering your tracks on the target computer?

Say, if you go into the console and delete the users, logs, and system files so it can't reboot.

Can this cover your tracks?