Student Offers $1,000 for Data on Stolen Laptop

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Amazes me how the so called intelligent, are really stupid!

 

[db1959]

In a way he deserves it.....no back ups? These days there are so many easy ways to back up your work. I don't feel bad for him.

 

[hoosierdoc]

While in medschool someone was carjacked from the Wishard lot. She asked to get her backpack with her books out at least. The guy let her do that

 

[Tactical Dave]

Something tells me said theif is on easy street for his or her theist.

 

[BogWalker]

Seriously dude? Not even a copy on a flash drive? Heck, I back up two page high schools essays! How could you not backup a freaking thesis?

 

[Brandon]

I would be willing to bet that he has a backup somewhere. I would also be willing to bet that this is a ploy to get his laptop back.

Those are just my thoughts.

 

[x10]

Hey I was ready to not go along with you on loosing data, Because In January My house was broke into and My un password protected Laptop got stolen and I hadn't done a backup in a couple weeks, So I was ready to defend the guy but after reading,

really 5 years and no backup, Plus anybody that trusts a 3 year old laptop is a fool,

BTW
there is a free software called synctoy that is a great program, Its simple, everything I've used before this is overly complicated, A 2 T cloud drive and synctoy and everything is easy.

I also backup to Justcloud.com,

If anyone has a better or cheaper one than justcloud let me know, I have no complaints but I always like to go cheaper for the same product

 

[hoosierdoc]

I use carbonite. Saved the day when MIL's computer went nuts

 

[cordex]

If all you need is backup, Backblaze is $50/year per computer for unlimited storage.

 

[CTS]

If all you need is backup, Backblaze is $50/year per computer for unlimited storage.

Crashplan Pro is about the same and features incremental version retrieval..plus backblaze has always suffered some latency issues for me resulting in slower uploads, it was the main reason I switched to Crashplan, plus they aren't as picky about file types (I know you can manually edit the backblaze list but it's annoying) and Crashplan lets you backup to another PC on your network as well giving you an automatic local copy w/o running another type of software. I still use Acronis to backup to my NAS though so I can have a full system recovery if I want to.

 

[canav844]

I would be willing to bet that he has a backup somewhere. I would also be willing to bet that this is a ploy to get his laptop back.

Those are just my thoughts.

This is my thought, if the guy is hard enough up to steal a laptop, then $1000 may sound enticing. Convince them to meet up to trade thumb drive for a grand, and the student will probably bring campus police (or a baseball bat depending on his demeanor). Gets the guy caught, laptop back and thesis work, unless the laptop has already been pawned.

 

[hoosierdoc]

What makes you think the thief is poor and "hard up"?

 

[Double T]

My guess is that he didn't do the thesis.

 

[canav844]

What makes you think the thief is poor and "hard up"?

I never said the thief was were poor, but it is a college campus, and this is the time of year when those who are functioning on savings from summer jobs or student loans can have budgets that are more stained than earlier in the year or semester. Not to say the thief, didn't get born with a silver spoon or isn't working their butt off to pay for everything as they go, some people just enjoy screwing up the life of someone else; but if the Chem student thinks stolen electronics make quick cash at a pawn shop or ebay or Craigslist, then he may have decided it was worth a shot. If the THEFT was motivated by GREED than perhaps GREED may result in finding the THIEF.

Same as what makes people think he didn't write his thesis or back it up, and isn't the next wizkid with papers on there that'll make himtons of money when he graduates moves to the private sector and has something that'll be bigger than Viagra; but just doesn't want it to fall into the wrong hands before he can cash in off of it? Until we actually know nobody knows, and it's highly unlikely we'll ever get an update to this classic page/time filler story.

 

[Mackey]

My guess is that he didn't do the thesis.

Me too. I'm thinking this is the high tech version of "dog ate my homework."
The $1000 offer is to make it seem real.
No fear in losing the grand, as the "data" doesn't even exist.

 

[HeadlessRoland]

RAID array? Anyone?

 

[gemihur]

Our modern culture relies on technology FAR TOO MUCH!
One good solar flare and what are ya' gonna do?
Let's get back to basics... blackpowder and cast bullets!
I appreciate mordern developements as much as the next guy but I won't forget my roots.

 

[hoosierdoc]

By my read he hasn't finished the thesis and needs the data to do so. You don't get five years into a doctoral program without meeting with your advisors and proving you are making progress. This sounds legit to me.

 

[CTS]

RAID array? Anyone?

I'll bite. What good would a RAID array have done here? Even if it's a laptop with a raid controller in it running in Raid 1, both drives would have been taken with the laptop meaning the thief got two copies instead of one, still leaving the student with zero.

 

[Scutter01]

I'll bite. What good would a RAID array have done here? Even if it's a laptop with a raid controller in it running in Raid 1, both drives would have been taken with the laptop meaning the thief got two copies instead of one, still leaving the student with zero.

If I had a nickle for every time someone tried to tell me that RAID was a backup solution...