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Stolen Laptop Owner Outwits Mugger, Police, and the Media

Posted by timothy on from the dirty-deeds-dragged-into-view dept.

An anonymous reader writes "What do you get mugged in Central London and the local police are too incompetent to find a mugger even with his address and photograph? You may not be able to get to the laptop, but you still own the photos and data on it, so you set up the NSFW Plumpergeddon blog which gives details of the subsequent 'owner's' 'Brick House Butts' fetishes. Now of course later the IT media might get interested and offer an interview with a promise to let him review the article and keep his name secret. luckily our hero is not so innocent and demonstrates the value of using a false name on the internet as well as planting your own monitoring software on your laptop."

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  1. Speak English, dickless. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    Based on the content of the summary, I have no fucking idea what this story is about.

    1. Re:Speak English, dickless. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

      Guy got his laptop stolen.

      Police wouldn't pull ATM video or follow-up with the 11 other locations his (also stolen) card were used. This pissed off the victim.

      He hasn't tracked the thief, but his laptop regularly sends photos and screenshots while the laptop is in use. This is old news, from a tech perspective.

      He posts them on a blog. Much of it is the thief masturbating to porn of grossly overweight women, on sites where he used the victims stolen card to buy memberships.

      The thief, unsurprisingly, sucks at life in a number of other ways. He keeps getting banned from eBay. His pathetic dating profile has been posted, etc.

      The Register wrote an article full of incorrect information, because the victim declined to reveal his identity and do a real interview. As such, nobody knows his real info. He can continue to operate the shame site.

      He has not made any real money running the blog, even with the ads. Less than 100 gbp. This summary stinks of an advertisement to build the viewership and ad revenue generation. I suspect as much because the blog operator isn't vury guud wath tha englishes, either.

      I think that covers it.

  2. What the What? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    I've read this twice and I'm still confused.

    I'll try to translate what I think the article says:
    1. Man was mugged and lost his laptop.
    2. Police won't do anything about it.
    3. He has hidden software on his old laptop that was sending images and data back to him.
    4. He posted it on the Internet under a fake name
    5. ...
    6. Profit?

  3. Re:Tech news by aevan · · Score: 5, Informative

    Luckily, the UK won the War of Independence and no longer have to listen to the prattle of uppity colonists and their opinions on 'legal rights' :P