Stolen Laptop

this is an awesome video, im shitting a brick and i havent even been near that laptop, i actually feel a tiny bit guilty hahaha

THE prof was totally lying, The second hes like bring the laptop to me and that im the only one who can save you, ITS pretty ovious that he hasnt tracked him and just wants the laptop beack
secondly if the data was that important in which i mean the federal governemtn was involved they would have already been at his door the second they herd what happened.

lol, i'll tell you what. i'm no thief, but, if i didn't know a thing about computers, and i'd stolen that laptop, i'd be freaking out.

give that teacher some credit. it was a great performance. he should have won an ocar for that.

I just really have to interject something here and I agree with the former poster in a lot of ways:

1. The transponder and wireless signal places the laptop at certain places on the campus, as long as the MAC-adress hasn't been changed you could prove where the LAPTOP was, but not neccessarily the person.
2. Eye witnesses are only as good as their word, any defense attourney will tear that one apart.
3. A security camera could have gotten him, but else: just jack the transponder+wifi and done.

You're right. I thought about the camera thing as well. But on the other hand, why would the guy tell that to everybody if he knows, what the thief looks like and that he is on the campus. He's talking about millions of dollars. Doesn't seem a very clever strategy to me. If it were my laptop and my millions of dollars involved I'd rather try to find him on my owm or have people do it instead of letting him know what I know and by that giving him the chance to get away (if he isn't already).

Probably scare tactics, it would probably work on someone who is paranoid or similar.

And why the hell wouldn't the professor encrypt the data that was so important? That's a big mistake on the professors part because yes, laptop thefts do happen very often.

Still sounds risky to me. The guy wasn't scared from stealing the laptop in the first place... and using it on the campus.

Agreed with the encryption thing. A professor should know better!

lot of things that arent true.

1, washington doesnt give a crap about a stolen laptop. 2 you cant track a laptop by it being turned on. only by the ip address that can be changed. and why the hell would you have bussness info on your personal data (since its a million dollar bullshit) this guy just wanted his laptop back.

to be real, you can take it down to mexico and get everything swapped and come back with a new laptop and 50 gigs of porn lol.

cool, i hope they find the lil punk, i had my ipod touch 16gb stolen and im soooooo pissed, god i hate thieves.