Eric Umansky in Wired writes, “Before my fiancée and I headed to Syria to study Arabic, we often heard there was one advantage to living in a police state: almost no crime. So it came as a surprise when Sara and I returned to our Damascus apartment one night after a dinner party to find splintered wood in the hallway — wood that had once been part of our front door. I made a beeline for the living room to check on our most valuable possessions: my MacBook and Sara’s MacBook Pro. Both gone. There’s no 911 in Damascus, so we called our landlord, who contacted the cops. Within an hour, a dozen police were on the scene. About half of them sat around fingering unlit cigarettes. (Pushy Americans, we had asked them not to smoke inside.) The others engaged in what could generously be called an investigation. They took fingerprints from the door. They dusted the fridge. “Maybe the robber was thirsty,” one said. They did not dust the coffee table where the laptops had been sitting.”
Read the full article here
0 Responses to “The Mac Guru of Damascus in the Case of the Missing Laptops”