Re: [privacy] VA Laptop Was Sold from the Back of a Truck

[Drsolly <drsollyp () drsolly com>]

On Wed, 5 Jul 2006, Young, Keith wrote:

> > Both the laptop and hard drive ended up for sale at a 
> > black market just north of Washington D.C., near a subway 
> > station outside the Beltway near Wheaton. We're talking 
> > about the kind of market that is literally run out of the 
> > back of a truck, one official said. 
>
> Hmm... The laptop was sold at a Metro train station only 3.5 miles (5.6
> km) from where the theft occurred. Does this really surprise anyone? As
> I said before, it was probably sold days after the robbery (and long
> before this hit the newspapers).
>
> > Fortunately, a buyer purchased both components at this 
> > black market, keeping the missing hardware together.
>
> Fortunately, the buyer wasn't arrested for receiving stolen goods, which
> would have happened if the reward didn't contain the "no questions
> asked" policy.
 
Unless the buyer wasn't a complete moron, and wouldn't walk into a police 
station with stolen goods under his arm.

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