This is what happens when you steal a hacker's computer

[Tyrone]

good info, stupid thief

[lovepython]

that was one dumb dude...

[khat17]

Hate JA when I look at things like this. Reminds me of what was stolen from me and the fact that phones were in use for MONTHS and still not found because..............we live in JA. *sigh*

[MaxFactor1]

You have to know people son... cuz living in Jamaica is really a beyatch.... imagine you have a unique number such as your IMEI and you goto each provider with evidence that you purchased that phone and give them... all they have to do is see which number is currently in the phone.... and let the cops know the address... simple...

[kev007_2002]

wow, this dude should feel like a suck out bag juice.
i mean, the first thing you do if u steal an electronic device is to wipe it. common sense i tell u, lacking.

but in any case, im glad the owner was able to recover his stuff

[RickyRudy]

OK, but what i really get from this is a hacker who is leaving himself wide open to being hacked. If his security policy wasnt so lax he would never be able to recover his pc.

In the world of hacking you can tell when you have a virus or being logged. But yea.. All he had to do was format it..

[carey]

Know how hard it is for a n00b to program a PPC Mac? It wasn't an X86; it was a PPC. If it ain't broken, don't format it :S Besides the guy couldn't afford to pay for such a programming job. He was on dial-up which I think is either free or very cheap in some parts of Nevada. Well, if it was Jamaica or Russia, he would have to kiss that rahtid bye-bye.

[carey]

Hate JA when I look at things like this. Reminds me of what was stolen from me and the fact that phones were in use for MONTHS and still not found because..............we live in JA. *sigh*

It's in the phone companys' best interests to NOT implement those security measures.

More phones stolen/lost => More phone sold

That itself is a huge profit boost to the already inexplicable >$1.00/min charges. Ever tried to itemize phone charges? What is it that all of us pay $10/min for?

Superhighway robbery is what it is.

[marl30]

Some funny stuff. LoL

[NOKIA 3650]

2 years an di man nuh format that PC

If i had stolen a machine thats the very first thing i'd have done

All he had to do was format it..

Know how hard it is for a n00b to program a PPC Mac?

What needs to be taken into consideration is that in order to do a clean install (or even a repair) of MAC OS X the installation must be booted from. In order to do this, the EFI firmware password must be known.