{"id":15304,"date":"2019-05-14T02:30:24","date_gmt":"2019-05-14T10:30:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/2019\/05\/14\/news-9053\/"},"modified":"2019-05-14T02:30:24","modified_gmt":"2019-05-14T10:30:24","slug":"news-9053","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/2019\/05\/14\/news-9053\/","title":{"rendered":"Business laptop? $1,000. Sending away the thief? Priceless."},"content":{"rendered":"

Credit to Author: Sharky| Date: Tue, 14 May 2019 03:00:00 -0700<\/strong><\/p>\n

The time is 2001, not long after 9\/11, and the place is New York City. Heightened security awareness is the order of the day, and\u00a0everyone in pilot fish\u2019s office is required to carry an access card that activates the office doors. Look out for tailgaters, they\u2019re all told. Those are people dressed like professionals who slide in behind someone with an access card and then steal wallets, coats and more.<\/p>\n

One morning,\u00a0fish arrives at the office and passes a man in business-casual attire carrying\u00a0a laptop tucked under his arm and headed for the elevators. Fish doesn\u2019t recognize the fellow, but he does know the co-worker who is running behind him, calling for someone to call building security and the police. The co-worker had returned to an empty desk just seconds after this tailgater had snatched his laptop, well before the tailgater could make a clean getaway.<\/p>\n

Once the tailgater is in the elevator, he sees that the doors aren\u2019t going to close in time for him to escape, so he throws the laptop at its rightful owner. But the thief\u2019s victim decides that stopping the perp is more important than breaking the laptop\u2019s fall, so he jams his foot against the elevator door so he can hold it open until security arrives. The laptop, meanwhile, sails past him and lands on the floor, where it breaks into several pieces.<\/p>\n

And the thief is<\/em> arrested \u2014 not for the first time. In fact, police find a desk warrant in his pocket. Turns out that he is out on bail on robbery charges and was in Lower Manhattan wearing\u00a0business-casual attire that morning because he was heading to a court hearing.<\/p>\n

Sharky will give a hearing <\/strong>to your true tales of IT life. Send them to me at <\/em>sharky@computerworld.com<\/em><\/a>. You can also subscribe to the Daily Shark Newsletter<\/a> and read some great old tales in the Sharkives<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

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The time is 2001, not long after 9\/11, and the place is New York City. Heightened security awareness is the order of the day, and\u00a0everyone in pilot fish\u2019s office is required to carry an access card that activates the office doors. Look out for tailgaters, they\u2019re all told. Those are people dressed like professionals who slide in behind someone with an access card and then steal wallets, coats and more.<\/p>\n

One morning,\u00a0fish arrives at the office and passes a man in business-casual attire carrying\u00a0a laptop tucked under his arm and headed for the elevators. Fish doesn\u2019t recognize the fellow, but he does know the co-worker who is running behind him, calling for someone to call building security and the police. The co-worker had returned to an empty desk just seconds after this tailgater had snatched his laptop, well before the tailgater could make a clean getaway.<\/p>\n

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