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What if you leave a laptop sitting in the middle of the street with no identifying information on it and no password required to login. I would argue that pick
by msandford 14y ago
What if you leave a laptop sitting in the middle of the street with no identifying information on it and no password required to login. I would argue that picking that laptop up and keeping it isn't theft but rather simply FINDING it.
In this case AT&T put the laptop in a brown paper bag (in the middle of the street) and then were shocked, SHOCKED that someone would open it up to see what's inside.
EDIT: Security through obscurity is no security at all.
- rayiner 14y agoIt is actually theft to take a laptop in a brown paper bag in the middle of the street unless there is an indiction the owner intended to abandon it. Finders are supposed to make efforts to locate the owner or otherwise turn in what was found.
- adamnemecek 14y agoWhich is kind of what weev did by reporting it.
- tptacek 14y agoThe words "kind of" are doing a lot of work in that sentence.
- adamnemecek 13y agoIn the sense that he made the owner aware of it.
- unreal37 13y agoAgree with tptacek - by "kind of" you mean "not at all" what he did.
- wnight 13y agoWhen it's a laptop full of customer information left around in the street - as this analogously was, do you tell the company so they can cover it up or the news so people know to watch for fraudulent charges? Weev joked about a lot. Stuff that would have been fitting to have happen to AT&T considering their negligent practices and disgraceful follow-up, but if we're guilty of what we joke about ...