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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. What do you get mugged? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Editing is a lost art.

  2. Are you kidding me? by mpoulton · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Just delete this and start over. Really. How does this word-salad get approved for publication to millions of people?

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  3. ermahgerd! by Grashnak · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I are unintelligible and I are endorse this message.

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  4. Re:Hero..maybe to you. by Jah-Wren+Ryel · · Score: 5, Insightful

    And I guess the submitter missed the other story that came out of England a few weeks ago where the theft victim similarly posted the "thieves" photos all over, only to discover the people he was harassing were innocent.

    That's not really relevant because in this case the mugger also used the victim's debit card to buy a subscription to the fat chick porn website he's been caught wanking over. There is no question that he's 100% culpable here.

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