Stolen Laptop Owner Outwits Mugger, Police, and the Media

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."

Comments

Hero..maybe to you.

[tuppe666]

Having read the article, there is no bones about it, most of us would be devastated , by the loss of our computers...and its not about the hardware which can include memories, videos or life changing moments (births deaths marriages), months or years of work...a whole host of personal information. If this story would have helped bring a little justice...or helped recover the laptop, It would have been a nice story.

...but its not it is voyeuristic piece about spying into someone deeply personal life's, This is appalling behavioural , compounded by publishing this on the web. This is disturbing, especially for an individual clearly unwilling to reveal themselves and recognises a person should have privacy and dignity behind their own walls....and no stealing someone else's property.

I would be astonished if this is legal (its ethically wrong), as notices normally have to be shown...although are often small; hidden in reality. This opens the doors for people leaving usb pen drives in the street, lending computers to friends...or hell just buying someone a usb camera.

Most here service other peoples machines at one time or other, and have the opportunity to be invasive, but do not do so because we simply recognise it as morally wrong, even if I think "fucked with the wrong nerd", and all here are pretty careful of "not finding" anything we find, because we *understand*.

I won't talk about the whole waking up in central London with a laptop missing. His house was not even broken into. He should take some responsibility for his own actions.

I'm struggling to identify the hero of this story...everyone is a victim.

Re:Hero..maybe to you.

[hedwards]

He's a vigilante and deserves no more consideration than the alleged mugger. Bottom line is that the UK has a system of courts to deal with situations like this. You can't go outside the system and then claim to be somehow better than the other people outside the system.