500 EURO reward for finding car by finding laptop

Posted by michael on Thursday April 1, 2004 @01:24AM from the real-submissions-unedited dept.

Komawi writes "Greetings, On the night of march 11th my car was stolen (Mercedes Benz, I'm realy fond of that car!), but also my laptop with in it a wireless networkcard with the following MAC address: 00:30:BD:9C:BD:B2 Also a mobile phone was stolen, with IMEI number 351083531088913. If anyone has a way to locate these goods and by this I get back my car, a reward of 500 euros will be given! The goods were taken from Alkmaar, The Netherlands somewhere between 2004-03-11 23:00 and 2004-03-12 07:30. May the force be with you!"

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Running distributed.net? by Nugget · 2004-04-01 01:25 · Score: 5, Interesting

Were you running dnetc on the laptop? We've recovered a few pieces of stolen computer equipment over the years when the theives plugged the boxes back in to the net and the installed client software sent back completed work.
Sorry to hear about the theft. I can only imagine how awful it feels.