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Don't steal a smart person's laptop...

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Originally posted by: 0roo0roo
meh can't you lock laptops with bios passwords and such?
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meh, can't you reset the bios? 😛

Bios passwords help nothing, windows passwords are where its at for a tiny bit of data protection. Till they rip out yer HD and slave it in another machine.
 
Dude, totally fake. Universities have volume licenses for Windows along with most corporations. When the same copy of Windows with the same volume license key gets installed on another computer, Microsoft does not come calling - that's how the volume license is supposed to work! It's one key for as many machines as necessary. No, Microsoft wouldn't give two $hits about one more Windows install under the university's volume license key 😛

Transponder?? 😕

Also, I don't think it's very good practice to keep a multil-million dollar software project on a laptop that you bring to your classes. It's a poor idea to leave it on a computer connected to the internet, it's a poor idea to not have backups, and it's a bad idea to tell the student that he could probably make millions of dollars by NOT returning the laptop.
 
Well, you know most professors are not very bright when it comes to computers. He could've saved his laptop from being stolen by getting a microsaver. Cheap ass.
 
Bluffing.


Hope the professor gets fired for losing all that important data, assuming there was even important data in there.
 
Is this the same laptop that was lost at Berkeley that had thousands (or was it hundreds of thousands) of people's personal info on it?

Not sure if its the same or what, but they did find the laptop. I don't remember how, and I can't recall if they found out if any data was copied off of it or not, but they did retrieve it somehow.
 
sounds like major BS to me..

but the number one question is..

If the data is so important, why didn't he ENCRYPT and BACKUP?
 
The Prof said they had a "personal image" of the person who stole the laptop. So why the threats then? Why not just nab him? Because he has no image, and no "transponder" frequency or whatever other BS he was rambling on about.

Also, anybody that keeps such sensitive information on a fvcking laptop deserves to have it stolen.

Just because.

 
That guy was full of crap. This was Bio 1A in Pimentel Hall, and my roommate was there when it happened. First of all, this is all bs because it was later uncovered he was lying and he never got his laptop back.

Horrible bluff.

Yea M$ checks when you boot up your computer to see if your CD-key is online at the moment. Right and all the piraters arent caught yet?

I'm glad I don't have to take any classes with this dimwit professor because I'm no Bio-E major.
 
My friend had his laptop stolen. The school was able to get it back for him because the girl who stole it was using the wireless nic and they were able to track where she was located while she was using campus internet.
 
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