Darren Kitchen Posted July 24, 2006 Share Posted July 24, 2006 Parking in Manhattan is a bitch. The New Yorker Hotel is crappy. But that's another rant. This post is just so I can vent real quick. My iPod was stolen from Wess' car by the valet. That punk. And ya know what? I could care less about the music, I had that backed up. But now I have to redownload my rainbow table set. On the bright side there wasn't any sensitive data on the disk. Grrr Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rFayjW98ciLoNQLDZmFRKD Posted July 24, 2006 Share Posted July 24, 2006 Next episode of hak.5, self destucting Ipod! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VaKo Posted July 24, 2006 Share Posted July 24, 2006 Can't you just sue the hotel? Or find the guy and respond in kind? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darren Kitchen Posted July 24, 2006 Author Share Posted July 24, 2006 a civil suit for something less than $1000.... yeah, somehow i doubt thats going to help. meh, at least now i've got an excuse to get a new ipod... whens macworld again? or maybe even make an mp3 player. :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VaKo Posted July 24, 2006 Share Posted July 24, 2006 Shame, in the uk its easy to sue someone, or get them ASBO'd (civil procedure without the need of evidence). Would make an interesting project, the unstealable mp3 player. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rFayjW98ciLoNQLDZmFRKD Posted July 24, 2006 Share Posted July 24, 2006 It easy to sue someone in the US too, common, if your coffie is too hot, you can sue. If you leave your kids in the back seat and they die of the heat, you can sue the car company. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rFayjW98ciLoNQLDZmFRKD Posted July 24, 2006 Share Posted July 24, 2006 I never played with an I-pod before, but isn't it possible to write a simple applet to "phone home" every time the Ipod is pluged in. (as far as I know) it should be viewed as a portable hard drive and look for AUTORUN Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Haplo Posted July 24, 2006 Share Posted July 24, 2006 WWDC is aug 2nd. Don't know about iPod updates though, but you can always watch the keynote and check the site afterwards :P. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stingwray Posted July 24, 2006 Share Posted July 24, 2006 That sucks, hope the trip was worth it otherwise. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CaveMan Posted July 24, 2006 Share Posted July 24, 2006 ohhh, bad luck... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
melodic Posted July 24, 2006 Share Posted July 24, 2006 the unstealable mp3 player. ...with instant needle stabbing aids action? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sparda Posted July 24, 2006 Share Posted July 24, 2006 When will we see the first portable media players that can run some thing like TrueCrypt nativly and while the OS of the player is loaded from a unencypted volume every thing else is on a encypted volume and it uses your finger print as part of the key? Obviusly the point of this isn't to make the player unusable to theives (since that is practicly imposible), but it will at least hassle them since they will have to reinstall the OS on to the player and they lose any thing and every thing on it. The main point is to keep your data safe. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VaKo Posted July 24, 2006 Share Posted July 24, 2006 Wouldn't it just be easiyer to have your name engraved in the back or something? Bit harder to sell something you've stolen when your name isn't the one on the back. Or, Apple could use an IMEI like system and simply lock any iPod thats reported stolen or lost when its next hooked into iTunes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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