Another clue

At the GNU Public Dictatorship we are nothing if not dedicated, which is why we have had our operatives searching for hints about what the Parent Corporation recovered along with Jacob Gehris's hand. The investigation has advanced enough today that we are able to reveal an important clue. Of course we know more than we are revealing publicly, but we are still trying to protect our investigation from unnecessary complications.

The clue itself may not seem particularly important, but trust us that it is. It seems that the Unholy Brotherhood of the Hole Punch knew where the hand was buried as early as April of this year, but they were afraid to act without more knowledge. The clue we found was an entry in the logs for our administrative computer system in the GPD office infiltrated by "Edgar". It read, simply:

[20090612T180942.1233] /home/quisling$ rm -f clapper.cad

The first thing we found interesting is that this command shows that the user who performed this action had root privileges, which we never grant under normal operating circumstances, even to our Counts. We dug through the logs a bit more and found out that our IT manager had been tricked into installing a program that allowed "Edgar" to run an elementary buffer overflow exploit and gain root access so that he could delete a file in quisling's account (our IT manager has had his fingers smashed between a door jamb and a refrigerator as punishment). We were able to recover clapper.cad (which is why our IT manager hasn't been fired), and we recovered partial plans for a Clapper-like device. What is particularly interesting is that these plans were last modified on April 3, 1975, well before the patent was filed for The Clapper. We aren't sure why "Edgar" felt the need to delete these plans, but we suspect, based on the logs, that the plans were copied there by mistake early in his infiltration and that he was attempting to cover his tracks. Based on the surveillance tapes we have of "Edgar" we also suspect that he was using our computer system to try to complete these plans, and that when he discovered a piece of information (which we, unfortunately, still cannot reveal) he realized that the remainder of the plans had not been in the possession of the Company, but buried with the hand of Jacob Gehris. We suspect that the UBHP now has the completed plans, and we are being more-than-usually vigilant to make sure it doesn't adversely affect you!