Tamral could have used more tact.

[Sean of the Thread]

Proper way of handling things.

http://www.yikers.com/video_berkley_laptop_thief_gets_owned_hard.html

[Showal]

hahaha i love it.

[Sean of the Thread]

Yeah talk about stealing the wrong lap top.

[Drew]

Most of what that guy said is bullshit.

[Sean of the Thread]

Most of it seemed reasonable to me.

[Sylph]

That's one hell of a bluff or that person is totally shagged...

[Warriorbird]

That's awesome.

[Kitsun]

I'm a bit skeptical about the whole transponder data and Microsoft being on the ball enough to locate a second copy of windows running within an hour.

That guy's ass is probably in a nice deep fryer for losing hold of that laptop with the data to begin with.

My money would be on that being a big old bluff.

[Sean of the Thread]

Oh yeah I agree with that.. the rest of the shit I was talking about.

[Artha]

Direct link (http://videos.yikers.com/videos/yikers_berkley_laptop_thief_gets_owned_hard.wmv).

[Makkah]

Who knows... IF he really had such information of said laptop, you'd think they'd have some major security in place.

What I thought was funny was it was a pharmacology class...

[Sean of the Thread]

Or sex ed. I noticed the viagra on the board.

[Edited on 9-21-2005 by Xyelin]

[Soulpieced]

Most definitely bullshit. Normal people don't have that much sensitive information on a computer they sit and play on in class while kids are taking a test. Bad OPSEC there.

[Drew]

Originally posted by Kitsun
I'm a bit skeptical about the whole transponder data and Microsoft being on the ball enough to locate a second copy of windows running within an hour.

That guy's ass is probably in a nice deep fryer for losing hold of that laptop with the data to begin with.

My money would be on that being a big old bluff.


Last I heard, they never caught the guy.

[Sean of the Thread]

Laptop thief called his bluff

By Nick Farrell: Monday 25 April 2005, 05:58
A BIOLOGY professor who attempted to scare the student who nicked his laptop into giving himself up may have exaggerated his story a tad.

Last week we told how University of California, Berkeley, professor, Jasper Rine tried to put the fear of god into the student who nicked his laptop by claiming it had all sorts of top secret government data on it. He warned that almost every James Bond in the world was hunting that laptop. He also said he knew who the thief was.

Since we ran that story, it has been picked up by ABC News in the States and debated on bog sites across the world.

Most techies consider that anyone could see that the Rine was telling porkies. One of the ways that Rine claimed he identified the tea leaf was by installing the same version of Windows on another computer. If the professor had attempted to use the same key to activate a copy of Windows, the activation servers would have denied him access.

Some of the technobabble that the professor spouted to out the thief was impressive, but has not been found to work well yet.

He claimed that there were passive trackers embedded in the bezel of laptop screens beside the wireless transmitters. Technology like this does sort of exist, but is rare and not used by anyone outside the Department of Energy.

He also claimed that the wireless card in the laptop triggered some location data. This is possible, but pretty unlikely.

In fact a University spokesman told ABC that Rine had indeed made the whole thing up to scare the student into handing over the laptop. The story has for some reason now been pulled from the ABC site, but can be found here. There might be a bit of a clue as to the way Rine operates in an article here, in which he says: "Although I have unlimited respect for facts, and delight in their discovery and appreciation, I have come to the obvious yet almost blasphemous view that, with respect to teaching, the facts just aren't that important."

Despite all the exaggeration, and threats, the thief has ignored Rine and has kept his laptop. Still it was worth a crack

[Bobmuhthol]

<<Microsoft being on the ball enough to locate a second copy of windows running within an hour.>>

...

All it takes is, "These two machines have the same product key, wtf! Let's find out the IP of this one, now let's find its service provider and location."

Not very hard. Data is sent to Microsoft on a consistent basis as regulation.

[Warriorbird]

Should've killed his cat.

[Showal]

http://www.aunty-spam.com/laptop-stolen-and-compromising-data-of-nearly-100000-alum-from-uc-berkeley-recovered/

Don't know how reliable it is.

[Sean of the Thread]

Yeah that is a seperate incident involving a laptop from the admissions office and originally what I was searching for when I found the other.

[Terminator X]

The NIH copyright would be a problem when the retard decides to begin publishing grants off of stolen data.

The SEC violations are a problem when the retard uses a saved password for whatever site it is that allows him to begin selling and buying stocks on an account not even belonging to his retarded self.

I am pretty sure that the FBI is immediately involved the second the man files a police report for stolen property worth > felony status in whatever state that particular U. Berkley was in. It might become more involved depending on how much of a shit fit the professor throws and/or sensitive nature of documents stored on it.

Hopefully the kid returns it and just gets kicked out of Berkley, per se, rather than being prosecuted if/when caught.

[Terminator X]

With about three more seconds of thinking, I decided that being a student at Berkley, the alleged perpetrator does not have a hardened criminal past... But it also makes me think WTF was he thinking being a student at such a prestigious university and having something like this manifest itself in a physical form.