Student Finds a Stolen Thesis by Thinking Like a Thief
December 23rd, 2005 Stephen Lau
Student Finds a Stolen Thesis by Thinking Like a Thief
Pretty amazing story of a woman who managed to recover her USB drive after it had been stolen…. with her only copy of her thesis on it.
I gotta say though - she’s just plain stupid. What’s the first rule of computers? Back your stuff up!
I know when I was writing my thesis, I had a special alias called ‘thesis’ aliased to: gvim ~/Documents/Thesis/thesis.tex;scp ~/Documents/Thesis/thesis.tex [host1];scp ~/Documents/Thesis/thesis.tex [host2] … et. al until it was automatically backed up onto 4 different computers in 3 different time zones. 
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Susan in St. Paul | December 23rd, 2005 at 11:23
Whenever I am missing something I try and think like either the object or the person who took it, I thought that was normal. For instance, if I was my glasses where would I be?
Not backing things up in general is probably normal too, but not backing up a thesis??? Insane!
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