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Wednesday, April 20th, 2005 - 8:03pm
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I think i just wet myself.
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That dude''s about to have a bad f*ckin'' day.
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He is so f*cked.
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Not that I condone stealing or anything, but I would just laugh my ass off. If there was some way to actually KNOW who it was they would have gotten him before that little speach. Nothing says he cannot disable the damn thing by any method, water, gas, milk, landfill... Just cause it supposedly was caught on ""special signals around the campus"" doesnt mean diddly squat unless they acted on it RIGHT AWAY.
There is some cool stuff you can do but I mean really... telling the class doesnt mean anything unless he already knew who it was and I''m pretty sure (unless the guy was REALLY stupid) he/she didnt actually bring it to the class...
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Wow. Seriously. Wow.
Extra points to whoever can find out what happened to that guy.
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For those of us at work who can''t watch this, mind giving us a rundown of whats going on in it?
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The professor who''s laptop was stolen is basically a top brain in some exclusive fields and has a lot of incredibly sensitive data on his machine. So sensitive that the FBI, Secret Service and Federal Marshalls are all now looking for the soon-to-be ex-student who took the machine, and who very soon will be going to prison for a period of time yet to be determined.
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basically someone stole this profesor''s laptop.
So the professor says that it has a tracking devicxe in it and the wireless has been used on campus a few times.
He also says he has consulted for 2 major companies, including some files on his computer worth 100 million bucks. So the feds are involved as well. (For someone who had 100 million dollar files on his computer, he should have more security)
More stuff was said to scare the culprit as well.
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This is the most awesome thing I''ve seen all week. I''m terribly surprised that he didn''t get a full confession about 1/2 way through his speech.
Hell, I was about to yell out, ""Ok, Ok, I did it!"".
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Par: I''m assuming that what they have isn''t enough to absolutely positively pin it on him, yet. So they are basically asking for a confession.
Whatever. That OWNED. Something about the screeching of the mic, the voice of the guy... I could absolutely imagine myself in that lecture hall. If I HAD been there, you would have heard me laughing my ass off, on that recording.
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The problem for the student is going to end up being the partial image of the person they got with the stolen laptop and the eye witnesses. If they find the laptop and it has the persons fingerprints all over it, that person is screwed.
If he wasn''t in class to hear the speech and uses the computer again and they catch him using it, that person is screwed beyond belief.
I think the proffesor was trying to give the student some time to help reduce the amount of trouble he/she may be in. I doubt it was just a scare tactic, a good one at that.
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I think that most of that is a load of crap. If they were really that interested, they would be questioning everyone of those students.
I''m guessing the computer was also probably a Dell. I''m sure No other people have a Dell laptop at Berkley.
If the guy destroys the computer the only way they will catch him is eyewitnesses or if someone he was dumb enough to tell the story to rats on him.
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I vote bullsh*t. It was cool, and well worth listening to, but people don''t usually babble on like that if they really have something on the culprit. It sounded a lot like a parent who is making ""I know you did it, and there''s big trouble ahead"" threats to try to shake it out of a kid when they really don''t know who did it.
As for simply saying it out of sympathy and a final chance to atone, if he was so comfortable he had a good idea who it was, why wouldn''t he just have that talk privately?
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if you follow the link, there is now a transcription of just the pertinent text. so you don''t need audio.
you know what...
i f*cking love that man.
even if all that he said was bullsh*t, just the complete sincerity in his voice would be enough to make you sh*t your pants if you''d have been the one to steal that laptop.
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I wonder why this guy didn''t have better security on his laptop... If I were a shareholder in one of these companies and heard about this I would sue. I mean, I am in the laptop market and IBM has one with a thumbprint scanner for a very reasonable price. Why wouldn''t this guy have one of these if he''s carrying around vital information for a 100 million dollar company? Or have a USB key or something... For this consultant to be carrying around this kind of information, unencrypted?, on his (most probably) Dell that looks like one of thousands on the Berkely campus is a much bigger deal to me than some kid snagging it as a gag...
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I don''t believe it was ever stated that the data was not encrypted, if you can''t drive and you steal a car, they can still charge you with it.
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The concern he expressed about the data was that it could be copied or transferred, which would be a danger wether it was encrypted or not.
Not sure if this is BS or not. The guys voice was wavering and he was missing words here and there which is a sign of nervousness or suppressed emotion. Since he''s a lecturer, speaking in front of people probably wouldn''t make him that nervous, so he was either A) telling the truth and very, very pissed off, or B) pulling a snow job and nervous about lying.
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I elect ""most"" of it was a snow job. I''m sure he could track instances on the campus network (if he had access) of the wireless MAC address and when it logged on, but for the rest of it... come on. If all those companies, government agencies and so forth had an interest in this guys laptop then they NEVER would have allowed him to speak publicly about the measures being taken to catch the thief.
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I bet someone steals his car next...
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To all of you asking about why the laptop doesn''t have ""X"", it''s reasonably possible (though maybe not) that the laptop is University issued and maintained and therefore subject to certain limitations.
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If it was a university laptop he wouldn''t be allowed to do private work on it without it becoming property of the university.
At least that is how most universities work.
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I sit corrected. Thanks.
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