Tech Humor
Posted on 10/23/2007 6:12:44 PM PDT by steve-b
There are a few things in this world that thieves need to keep in mind in order to run a successful criminal operation. For example, don't take the cash you just stole from one bank to another bank down the street to have it deposited into your account. Don't steal someone's MacBook and take it to the Apple Store Genius Bar the next day to get help with OS X. And finally, don't steal a drivers' license printer from the DMV, only to call up the manufacturer the next day looking for drivers. That's one tip that 33-year-old Missouri resident Timothy Scott Short apparently wasn't aware of when he stole some equipment from the Missouri Department of Revenue earlier this month, only to find himself facing jail time after outing himself to tech support....
(Excerpt) Read more at arstechnica.com ...
What a dumbass
Besides, the company website is a MUCH better resource!
“Short stole the Digimarc printer, along with a PC containing names and birthdates, from the Department of Revenue’s contract office in St. Charles. Unfortunately for Short, the PC was locked, and he was unable to access anything on it,
If you can’t get admin on a Windows PC to which you have total physical access, you’re not going to cut a big figure in the electronic crime scene.
DriverGuide is your friend.
Tech Humor
“If you can’t get admin on a Windows PC to which you have total physical access, you’re not going to cut a big figure in the electronic crime scene.”
Was the hard drive encrypted? Most government agencies are doing it now. Except for the IRS of course.
Getting by with this scam would require a lot of luck even if they could print the fake licenses.
Not necessarily. If he was smart enough to get the numbers right and got the card encoding right, the system *could* react as if it was a recently made one not yet input into the system. Several states’ systems have this problem.
Even better would be to steal the materials from one state and then move across the country. Not all states have fully operable interconnections on DLs, believe it or not.
As to which states???? Eh. Loose lips and all that.
Unfortunately, it’s probably a proprietary solution (read: no peer review of security) running on Windows 2000.
It’s okay. You can tell us... we’re Freepers. We’ll never repeat a word of it. LOL!
If it’s Win2K, you can crack the admin password in a couple of hours with the l0pht cracker.
If it’s Win2K, it has a floppy, and you have physical access plus another machine, you can crack it in under 15 seconds.
Why not? Apple won't do anything to help someone whose new Macbook got stolen. I'm sure the thief got help with it.
Wrong. Apple does have a database of all Macs reported stolen. Anyone calling in for support, or showing up for support, with a Mac that has that serial number will get a visit from the police shortly thereafter.
The thing is, the *police* don’t report the serials to Apple. It’s the owner’s responsibility to tell Apple, “Hey, someone stole my laptop, if you see it call the cops, will you?”
Oh, and by the way, since you’re about to shovel more FUD and say that “Apple would never ever help a user that way because Steve Jobs is teh d3v17!!!!!11111eleventy”:
Apple employee helps catch thief
Date: October 4, 2007
Publication: San Gabriel Valley Tribune (West Covina, CA)
SAN DIMAS - A man is in police custody today after he tried to register a stolen laptop under his name at the Apple store in Pasadena. Glendale resident Diesel Cisneros, 25, is being charged with receiving stolen property, said San Dimas Sheriff’s Sgt. Dave Barker.
http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=364547
No, I’m telling you that they don’t help people whose laptops are stolen because they wouldn’t help my daughter when hers was stolen.
We went to the local Apple store and they told us they couldn’t do anything.
She called Apple on their various numbers and got the same story- there was nothing they could do to help recover or track a stolen laptop.
We filed a police report and nothing ever came of it.
BTW, we did call Apple separately ourselves and didn’t expect the police to do it.
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