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Thief Returns Stolen Laptop Contents On USB Stick
While it's true that Sweden is responsible for unleashing IKEA and ABBA on humanity, not everything they produce is terrible. Their thieves are some of the most considerate in the world. An unnamed professor at Umeå University received a USB stick with all his data after his laptop was stolen. From the article: "The professor, who teaches at Umeå University in northern Sweden, was devastated when ten years of work stored on his laptop was stolen. But to his surprise, a week after the theft, the entire contents of his laptop were posted to him on a USB stick. 'I am very happy,' the unnamed professor told the local Västerbottens-Kuriren newspaper. 'This story makes me feel hope for humanity.'"
What next, a person that steals your car stereo mails you back the CD that was in it?
The world is how you make it
makes it sound as tho he had never offloaded any data and had no backup... and was apparently using a 10 year old laptop, lol... I know I keep my most important documents on a 5.25" floppy disk, which I keep hidden behind my radiator
His fault if 10 years of important information is not backed up.
Honestly, why cant people, even highly educated people can not understand the basic important thing of BACKING UP WHAT IS IMPORTANT.
Plus, how does he have such a tiny amount of important info that it all fits on a usb stick? Just my last year of research takes up a 40 gig DLT tape.
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