[OSX-Users] Re: worrying trend in surveillance

[Andrew Paul Landells]

On 23 Jun 2009, at 15:44, Philip Boulain wrote:
> Christopher Gutteridge wrote:
>> Ben Hodgson wrote:
>>> After reading the original blog post, I'm pretty surprised that  
>>> they didn't get mugged/shot/stabbed in the face.
> > Or their laptop nicked too.
>
> Or arrested for beating up an nervous, innocent man and stealing his  
> iPhone.
>
> (I have to wonder why the theif didn't think, after the first  
> message, to TURN IT OFF. Maybe he couldn't figure out the UI.)

As a general rule-of-thumb, thieves are idiots. This is made evident  
by their belief that thievery is a good method of making money. Anyone  
who isn't this stupid knows there are better ways of earning money. :-)

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Email: apl at ecs.soton.ac.uk  School of Electronics & Computer Science
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