A Dell laptop and an enchanting Thai lady both have crap ware, but at least the lady will clean herself up afterwards.

"July 4"? When did thise site become american?

Certainly the red light delights of Bangkok can beautifully scramble the brain.

I suppose the Lieutenant Commander is hoping [against hope?]that what happens in Bangkok, stays in Bangkok, but a hot box of tricks is always a merchantable commodity with a sweet and sticky price .... virtually raised bar fine.

"He woke up at 7am to find his notebook computer, a mobile telephone, an Ipod, his passport and credit cards missing."

What? They left his kidneys?

(yes, I know, I've read the snopes page)

"Signaling" or "Signal Intelligence" is the Aussie armed forces departments for information gathering and analysis.

I know a few people who work for them, they are not the kind of organization to leave important data laying around on a laptop, hell no drive ever leaves their secure areas, they get burnt to a crisp.

As they said, it would likely be under very heavy encryption, and if any hypothetical data was important, it wouldn't have been allowed on the laptop at all.

Hope they use full disk encryption!

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Hope they use full disk encryption!

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