青云志手游那个版本好:“笨贼妙探”？

利用安装在笔记本上的跟踪软件如BackBlaze、LoJack和Hidden，精于技术的失主经常兴奋的报告找到了失窃的笔记本，他们还常常公布窃贼的一些令人尴尬的照片和视频(Youtube)。但如果一位失窃笔记本的使用者不是小偷而是一位无辜的人呢？

52岁的俄亥俄州高中代课教师Susan Clements-Jeffrey花了60美元从一位学生手中购买了一台笔记本，该笔记本属于另一位学生所有，失主安装了Absolute Software的LoJack for Laptops。在被窃之后，Absolute开始利用软件定位机器，收集使用者信息。Clements-Jeffrey并不知道笔记本是赃物（也许知道，因为价格如此低廉，但学生声称笔记本出问题了），也不知道安装了跟踪软件，她与远方的男友交流了一些情色裸体照（两人喜欢裸体聊天），这些照片最终落在了Absolute和警方手中。Clements-Jeffrey及其男友提起诉讼，指控警方侵犯了他们的宪法权利，指控Absolute违反了电子通信保密法。

Couple can sue service that monitored their net sex

Laptop tracking firm may have violated wiretap law

By Dan Goodin in San Francisco

Posted in Crime, 31st August 2011 06:00 GMT

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A federal judge is allowing a lawsuit to proceed against a laptop-tracking service that surreptitiously intercepted explicit images from a public school teacher during an investigation of a stolen computer.

Susan Clements-Jeffrey filed the suit against Absolute Software after one of its employees captured steamy chats and naked images of her and her out-of-state boyfriend, according to an article from Wired.com [1] and other reports. The investigation, which intercepted images of the woman naked and her legs spread, commenced after a used computer she bought for $60 from one of her students had Absolute's LoJack for Laptops [2] installed on it – and the laptop turned out to be stolen property.

Clements-Jeffrey claims she first learned the laptop was stolen when police brandishing copies of the steamy images arrested her for possession of stolen property. The charges were dropped shortly after.

She sued Absolute, its employee, the city of Springfield, Ohio, and two of its police officers for violations of the Electronic Communications Privacy Act, which prohibits the secret interception and disclosure of contents from wire, oral, or electronic communications.

The defendants asked the judge hearing the case for a summary judgement finding that she had no reasonable expectation of privacy because the computer she was using was stolen. The price of the laptop and a serial number that had been scratched off should have tipped her off that the machine had been misappropriated, they argued in a motion that asked the suit be resolved in their favor.

US District Judge Walter Rice of the southern district of Ohio declined. He said there were grounds to believe the defendants had gone too far and that the matter would be better decided by a jury.

“It is one thing to cause a stolen computer to report its IP address or its geographical location in an effort to track it down,” Rice wrote. “It is something entirely different to violate federal wiretapping laws by intercepting the electronic communications of the person using the stolen laptop.”

It's too early to know how the case will turn out, but it's likely Clements-Jeffrey and her boyfriend have radically altered their expectations of privacy when it comes to internet communications. More from the Internet Cases blog and Forbes here [3] and here [4].

Links

1. http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2011/08/absolute-sued-for-spying/
2. http://www.absolute.com/en/lojackforlaptops/home.aspx
3. http://blog.internetcases.com/2011/08/29/using-lojack-to-find-stolen-laptop-may-have-violated-federal-wiretap-statute/
4. http://www.forbes.com/sites/kashmirhill/2011/08/30/reminder-the-embarrassing-naked-photos-on-your-stolen-laptop-may-not-belong-to-the-thief/