Teens punished for virtual theft

[rustbucket]

Geepers! " A Dutch court has sentenced two teens to community service after they stole virtual items from another teens computer during an online computer game."

Well, it seems as the online world grows, with all the benefits come many cons. Guess this type of theaft could become quite common now even in the business world. Companies are at risk even to having all sorts of information stolen. Clients, suppliers, and technical data I guess could all be at risk.

Guess we going to need to put burgler bars in our CPU's now too.

[whattingh]

That is something to think about, but here is something very scary
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7681534.stm

[freerider]

did no-one watch Hackers????

I stole Don's post - Calypso

[whattingh]

That is one of my all time favorite movies, '....hmmm....time to watch it again...'

[Carn]

This isn't the 1st time this has happened. Some time ago another online gamer was convicted of theft after hacking another players profile and gifting his own player all the other players collected items

[dasseh]

Someone just sent this to me about with what looks like a theft of a rally car???

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HYsslLKjK34

WTF??

[PaulVW]

(21-01-2011 11:31 AM)dasseh Wrote:  Someone just sent this to me about with what looks like a theft of a rally car???

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HYsslLKjK34

WTF??

WTF?
That is one of the S2000 Works VW Polos competing in the SA Rally Championship. Price tag in the region of R2.5m

*Edit*
Just watched the clip again and I see "Zulu" on the windscreen - which means Gugu Zulu is moving to S2000 this year Clever marketing by VW