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# Laptop for sale?
Just saw the story about that laptop on the BBC website: news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/london/5030814.stm - now I'm sure I was pi$$ed when I got the link to whatever myspace page (no change there then) but has the link been removed from the last newsletter? or did I get the url from somewhere else?

Or did I dream the whole thing?
(I helped save b3ta! HSDriver was probably still at work on, Wed 31 May 2006, 2:43, archived)
# nope I saw that,
maybe not here (cough)

but i do remember at the time thinking... oh shit... thats a breach of so many privacy laws.... never mind a shed load of others, but I forgot about it

still.. it was funny :-)
(I helped save b3ta! TBL I posted this on, Wed 31 May 2006, 2:46, archived)
# The laptop was sold
and I would have thought that also means the contents of the hard-drive were sold too, therefore the laptop's original owner had given up any rights to his photoraphs.

There are probably lots of complicated laws governing it all, but I would think the bottom line is "Don't give your hard-drive to other people if it has embarrasing things on it."

Just ask Garry Glitter.

EDIT: I am not going to correct my misspelling of 'photographs', becasue I now have a pleasing mental image of long necked creatures with cameras for heads.
(I helped save b3ta! Mystery_Bob, Wed 31 May 2006, 2:52, archived)
# Its all about rights of ownership...
and as this is disputed, things get very grey, dark and nasty.

but yes, always wipe your computer clean before you sell it.

on the subject of mr glitter, that was a clear breach of privacy (no matter how you look at it) by pc world staff. however, in the hoo hah that followed, that little matter was forgot about...
(I helped save b3ta! TBL I posted this on, Wed 31 May 2006, 2:58, archived)
# Makes you wonder
how many other peoples' computers they "had a look at".
(I helped save b3ta! Black Moon Not cracked, I'm all up to be., Wed 31 May 2006, 3:15, archived)
# all of them they'd have had time to I would suspect
oh might add

if folks are _really_ bothered about the contents of hd's when selling computers, the only way to securely erase a hd is to destroy it, I'd recommend melting.
(I helped save b3ta! discomeats This canoe, Wed 31 May 2006, 3:20, archived)
# You could always
take it to bits and use the discs as a wind chime.
(I helped save b3ta! Black Moon Not cracked, I'm all up to be., Wed 31 May 2006, 3:27, archived)
# also good
(I helped save b3ta! discomeats This canoe, Wed 31 May 2006, 3:28, archived)
# You didn't see anything.
/waves hands hypnotically
(I helped save b3ta! Black Moon Not cracked, I'm all up to be., Wed 31 May 2006, 2:47, archived)
# I suppose...
..These are the arn't the .htm pages I'm looking for..?
(I helped save b3ta! HSDriver was probably still at work on, Wed 31 May 2006, 2:53, archived)
# Actually....
...Madagascar, when the penguin has just told Marty they are going to the wild.

But the jedi mind trick works too.
(I helped save b3ta! Black Moon Not cracked, I'm all up to be., Wed 31 May 2006, 3:13, archived)
# It's in the newsletter
third intem in "WHAT B3TA PEOPLE HAVE BEEN MAKING THIS WEEK #1"

www.b3ta.com/newsletter/issue230/
(I helped save b3ta! Mystery_Bob, Wed 31 May 2006, 2:48, archived)
# Excellent
I knew I wasn't having a 4-bottle cheap plonk flashback when I read the story...

Right - back to killing more braincells...
(I helped save b3ta! HSDriver was probably still at work on, Wed 31 May 2006, 2:59, archived)
# "4-bottle cheap plonk flashback"
would be a great username.
(I helped save b3ta! Black Moon Not cracked, I'm all up to be., Wed 31 May 2006, 3:18, archived)
# shit
that'd be a blow against consumer power if that went to court
(I helped save b3ta! Milkman Dan, Wed 31 May 2006, 2:49, archived)
# and some.....
while the guy was right to publicise his problem, putting photographs of people on public websites (that are subject to any possible alligation of theft and/or deception) without thier prior consent is a real no-no... the men in suits are going to make a fortune out of this..
(I helped save b3ta! TBL I posted this on, Wed 31 May 2006, 2:54, archived)
# I didn't
do it. You can't prove a thing.
(I helped save b3ta! JD if you please? Save The Apostrophes, Wed 31 May 2006, 2:55, archived)
# What?
No picture?

*cries*
(Beardy Being a pirate is alright with me., Wed 31 May 2006, 2:56, archived)
# It's better
than yet another crappy quo pic
(I helped save b3ta! Mystery_Bob, Wed 31 May 2006, 3:08, archived)
# Indeed
some of those quo pictures make me a sad beard.
(Beardy Being a pirate is alright with me., Wed 31 May 2006, 3:15, archived)
# I like this story better.
 
there's leopards at the bottom of my garden
 
(I helped save b3ta! Rapitinui get in the cage and I'll give you a treat, Wed 31 May 2006, 3:44, archived)