This is beginning to sound like a school IT department with way to much time on it's hands.
Jeff Miles jmile...@charter.net Join my Mafia http://apps.facebook.com/inthemafia/status_invite.php?from=550968726 On Mar 6, 2010, at 7:19 PM, phartz...@gmail.com wrote: > On Sat, Mar 6, 2010 at 9:58 PM, mike <xha...@gmail.com> 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/ ** > ************************************************************************* ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *************************************************************************
