Re: Maybe...
Mycho is dead on point, and those who had a go at him for "victim blaming" should STFUM
As he pointed out, victim blaming in the way of leaving expensive goods on display in an unattended car is acceptable.
If the story was about someone who handed their entire wallet over to a bangkok back street trader, you would all be agreeing he was a dumbass for doing so.
If the story was about someone who was hacked and had all of their data stolen because they hooked an unpatched XP machine to the interwebz and didn't even run any security software, you would all be agreeing how much of a dumbass he was.
If the story was about someone who was 419'd, you would be laughing at the greedy dumbass.
Now, this buffoon has handed over an electronic device chock full of sensitive, personal info, allowed it to be taken out of his sight by someone he didn't know from a bar of soap, and for some reason, he is exonerated from dumbass-ness?
Yes, the sales droid shouldn't have done anything except look at the documents provided, but he shouldn't have allowed the device out of sight in the first place. Better still, he should have emailed the documents straight from his phone to the sales droid.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
