Dear Thomas V. Hubbell...

[bjarvis]

You don't know me, but I've learned a great deal about you since the refurbished Palm Tungsten E2 you returned to Circuit City arrived at my home this afternoon. I won more than I thought with that particular eBay auction.

I have your home & cell numbers so I suppose I could give you a call to give you the news, but it's more fun to do it here.

Seriously, dude, if you're planning a career in law enforcement --according to your resume-- you should know a bit about identity theft & how to avoid it. Things like shredding old documents, not giving out key information and erasing data from electronic devices before giving them away. OK, I know you're a little young but with a 3.8 GPA, you should know better. Your girlfriend Kim seems very pretty so perhaps she distracted you; I have her telephone numbers too, so I suppose I could ask.

BTW, I hope you do well on your Math 120 quiz this afternoon. It's on sections 4.4 and 4.6, in case you've forgotten.

Luv,
Brian

Comments

[trulygrateful.livejournal.com]

Sweeeet.

And it's guys like him that are running this country, too - probably.

If not now, then perhaps in ten to twenty years.

[tdjohnsn.livejournal.com]

Your post made me laugh very hard.

[bradferd23.livejournal.com]

Gawd in Heaven... who would forget to wipe the little black book??? It is the first thing I do when I give something personal that is electronic away... Funny tho... It could be that he couldn't get it to turn on... and couldn't wipe it, if it was refurbished... hmm..

[otterpop58.livejournal.com]

I traded in an old broken Sprint phone a few years ago. The display had busted so I could not access the "clear all" functions, etc. A few months later, I got a call saying someone had found my phone and called the "home" number listed in it. Sprint had neglected to clear out the phone when they refurbished it for resale. doh!

[annoyinghandle.livejournal.com]

Gee, I hope I remembered to erase all those "special" photos from the SD card in that camera I just sold on eBay...

[capitalcor.livejournal.com]

Oh honey, I can beat that hands down. When my bro gave me this computer, he forgot to delete all the "pics" of himself with his ex boyfriend. I needed months of therapy!!

[fuzzygruf.livejournal.com]

Ha!

[bearfuz.livejournal.com]

Bitch!!!

[bearfaced.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the smiles this afternoon, this is too funy!

[madknits.livejournal.com]

Put not your faith in machines that think like humans.

This is exactly why I use a paper calendar and a paper phone book.

thanks for the chuckles today.

[lovesongman.livejournal.com]

You definitely gave us all a good laugh!!!! He probably dropped a load in his shorts when he heard this. It's amazing how many of us forget the simple, protective things. Any good pics???? (not really...just kiddin!!!!) But...????

Sweet Bridget!

[oolongindc.livejournal.com]

That is hillarious!

Did you inform him that he hadn't erased it?
And since March is ask me something month I'm going to Ask:

How did you run across my LJ and why did you add me to your friends list?

[unzeugmatic.livejournal.com]

At the LISA conference a couple of years ago (the one in Atlanta, I think) somebody gave a talk about a study/paper he worked one: He bought various refurbished/used disk devices off eBay to see what information he could find on them. He found all sorts of things he should not have found, like bank records. (He called the bank to let them know about this incredible security breach and they didn't care at all about the security problem, they just wanted to be sure they weren't going to be sued).

The point of his talk was to teach the sysadmins how to REALLY delete things from a disk. But my gosh, what an amazing thing.

So it's not necessarily the fault of the guy who owned this originally, at least not completely. There are other security measures that should be in place elsewhere.