On Sat, Mar 6, 2010 at 9:58 PM, mike <[email protected]> wrote: > One article stated the two on paid leave had a 'private' website where they > were storing pics taken from webcams.
Yes, allegedly accessible by the local police department. I would wonder why the use of a website to provide photos to the police for the purpose of tracking down lost and stolen computers? First of all, police departments do not hunt for lost items. They are not a "lost and found" agency. They hunt for stolen property because it is assumed that a crime has taken place. Almost all of the incidents wherein cameras were activated were for misplaced computers, not ones that had been reported as being stolen. There were only 42 incidents of reported activation of laptop cameras, with only a handful of those related to computers reported as having been stolen. A website for that? Why not just e-mail the photos on a per-case basis of reported thefts? This is truly technology run amok. Steve ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *************************************************************************
