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Burglar Logs Into Facebook On Victim's Computer
yet-another-lobbyist writes to mention that Facebook addiction has finally caused real world consequences, at least for one would-be burglar. It seems that 19-year-old Jonathan Parker couldn't stay away from the popular social networking site, even long enough to rob a house. Parker not only stopped mid-robbery to check his Facebook status on the victim's computer, but left it logged in to his account when he left.
SOME criminals are stupid... obviously, you never hear about the smart ones.
if was robbing the place, why didn't he take the damn computer?
SOME criminals are stupid... obviously, you never hear about the smart ones.
Sure you do, they are called congressmen and senators.
Agent K: A *person* is smart. People are dumb, stupid, panicky animals, and you know it.
Sweet place you work at, where anyone can come along and log into your computers and get online.
rewriting history since 2109
At a previous job, we fired a cleaning crew because they logged into our computers to check their email while we were out.
We called to tell them why they weren't getting paid or allowed to come back, and the boss said, "they might have pressed some buttons when they were dusting."
We said, "the login we have here is 'john.smith123@hotmail.com'; the odds of that being pressed sequentially are 2.7^15 to 1 against."
Why didn't you just lock your screen when you left for the day?
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I'd further that by saying most criminals who are caught (and yes, this is most of them) do not rise to the top of the intelligence pool. Who knows how many ultra-smart uncaught criminals are still out there though...