Laptop on my desk
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I upped the CRT from 17" to 19". Yay! (Updated version: decided I should blank out my credit card number; oops!)
Steal laptops for class credit?
By Charlie Osborne | February 20, 2012, 1:05am PST Students at the University of Twente stole 30 laptops from university staff across campus. Were they prosecuted? No — instead, they received extra credit. As part of a scientific research project, …
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Google and the privacy Richter scale
Stolen laptops containing thousands of Social Security numbers and credit-card numbers would also fall in this range. Identity thieves could use this information to make fraudulent transactions that could impact credit scores for years.
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In the Last Year, Hackers Gained 'Full Functional Control' of NASA Networks …
To its credit and to the credit of the international law enforcement community, hackers in more than half a dozen countries have been apprehended in recent months and years for NASA-related cyber crime activities. But losing the laptop with the ISS …
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