Not given away but found
My mate had a nice computer, which his wife also used. When they split up he moved out leaving the computer behind. Later, Windows crashed in a spectacular way and she just bought a new one, and offered it to her ex for £50. A bit cheeky, but he bought his own computer back off her and we took a look. One quick re-install of Windows and the thing worked fine, giving us access to two years worth of saved e-mails in her AOL folder, and both of us were mentioned often. Basically when his kids were talking about "mummy's new friends" they meant the different blokes she was shagging on a weekly basis that she had met over the Internet.

The same friend joined me on a night time drive around the local area with his girlfriend's laptop and a USB wireless adaptor. It's amazing the number of people that don't password-protect their wireless Internet connections. They don't even change the default password on the router, which is usually "root" or "admin". The best SSID had to be "GetOffMyNetworkYouDog". We uploaded an entire website to our FTP server before rebooting his router.
( Amos E Wolfe makes vinyl signs and things like that, Fri 10 Feb 2006, 14:44, Reply)