{"id":1239,"date":"2010-10-20T05:00:11","date_gmt":"2010-10-20T09:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.georgetoon.com\/blog\/?p=1239"},"modified":"2010-10-19T21:11:37","modified_gmt":"2010-10-20T01:11:37","slug":"thief-returns-data","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.georgetoon.com\/blog\/thief-returns-data\/","title":{"rendered":"Thief returns data."},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_1242\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.georgetoon.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/dsylexic-pickpocket.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1242\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1242 \" title=\"dsylexic pickpocket\" src=\"http:\/\/www.georgetoon.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/dsylexic-pickpocket-300x97.jpg\" alt=\"A thief is a thief is a thief\" width=\"300\" height=\"97\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.georgetoon.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/dsylexic-pickpocket-300x97.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.georgetoon.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/dsylexic-pickpocket.jpg 850w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-1242\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">If a thief gives you part of something back, is he still a theif?<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a title=\"Thief returns data\" href=\"http:\/\/www.thelocal.se\/29636\/20101015\/\" target=\"_blank\">This story<\/a> details how a Swedish professor&#8217;s laptop was stolen, but the thief\u00a0 later returned his data.<\/p>\n<p>The prof. stated that, &#8220;<span> &#8220;This story makes me feel hope for humanity.&#8221; <\/span><\/p>\n<p>What?\u00a0 hello!\u00a0 Your laptop was stolen!\u00a0 Sure, I understand that your data probably accounted for\u00a0 months, maybe even years, of research.\u00a0 But don&#8217;t ya think the laptop shouldn&#8217;t have been stolen in the first place?!\u00a0 the guy commited a crime! he took something that did not belong to him!\u00a0 Just because he returns part of his loot, he somehow gets a pass?!<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a lot like someone stealing your wallet containing $2000.00, but the criminal later returns all your credit cards.\u00a0 I wonder if this had happened to the professor he would still have &#8220;hope for humanity.&#8221;\u00a0\u00a0 I doubt it.<\/p>\n<p>The big question though is, how can this professor be so sure the data wasn&#8217;t also<strong> copied <\/strong>and kept by the thief?\u00a0 It&#8217;ll be interesting to know if professor PC will be a victim of identify theft or not.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This story details how a Swedish professor&#8217;s laptop was stolen, but the thief\u00a0 later returned his data. The prof. stated that, &#8220; &#8220;This story makes me feel hope for humanity.&#8221; What?\u00a0 hello!\u00a0 Your laptop was stolen!\u00a0 Sure, I understand that your data probably accounted for\u00a0 months, maybe even years, of research.\u00a0 But don&#8217;t ya think [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,5],"tags":[35,7,28,19],"class_list":["post-1239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","category-news","tag-computer","tag-george","tag-laptop","tag-newton"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.georgetoon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1239","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.georgetoon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.georgetoon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgetoon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgetoon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1239"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgetoon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1239\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1251,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgetoon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1239\/revisions\/1251"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.georgetoon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgetoon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgetoon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}