We morans can offer no opinion on teh subjekt.
Posted on 04/30/2009 2:20:34 PM PDT by steve-b
Newsweek's Joshua Alston got his laptop stolen when he was in the shower. Sounds like the beginning of a porn movie, but it's one about detectives. Cyberdetectives that mock their suspects before sending the police.
Alston was showering when he heard a thump. After coming out of the bathroom he noticed all his gadgets missing, including his laptop. Fortunately, he had installed a little program called LogMeIn, which allowed him to securely and remotely log into his notebook. He waited until the thief got online to start getting information that would allow him to pinpoint his location and go to the police.
While some cyberdetectives get to watch porn on the thief's computer, Alston had some fun with him. He deleted any music he uploaded to the system, keep messing around with anything he did and, on April 1st, changed his desktop picture to feature him photoshopped as a lepper.
And all thanks to a remote login program. The moral of the story: Get a waterproof laptop and shower with it.
Sounds like he needs to find a safer bathhouse.
Someone deleted the author's spell-check.
I’d rather be a “looser” than a “lepper”, wouldn’t you? :)
The author needs to install a little syntax-check program.
Good story.
Playing with the thief’s mind sounds like great fun. It’s very good movie script material!
That lepper was such a thief that he stole an extra ‘p.’
So does his editor :)
We morans can offer no opinion on teh subjekt.
It costs $1100 per year for that “little” program, Logmein.
I think I’ll just contiue my weekly backups to an external hard drive and let the thief have my 2 year old lap top.
It costs $1100 per year for that “little” program, Logmein.
I think I’ll just contiue my weekly backups to an external hard drive and let the thief have my 2 year old lap top.
I have a laptop that I only use intermittently but one rule I have.
Nothing of value on it. NO bank data esp.
While I do a lot of online banking, bill pay , etc. NEVER from the laptop.
That guy is not helping break the whole ‘mullet stereotype’....
There is a free version of Log Me In. It is a great program and it is easy to use. They have a bunch of different versions. For example if you had to go away and needed to connect to you home or office computer. It works really well and is simple to use. If you were at a hotel and did not have your laptop you could log in on a hotel PC in the business center or a Kinkos too.
If I were the journalist I would be embarrassed to tell anyone i worked at the dying NewsWeak.
I use logmein. I have the free version on one of my computers and the upgraded version on another. The upgrade is $69 per year, a great investment.
It costs nothing per year for that program.
I've been using it for 3 years and haven't paid a dime.
Now, if you HAVE to have the Pro version, it'll cost ya.
The free version of LogMeIn I’ve been using for a year wasn’t $1100 dollars.
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