Originally Posted by
clrankin
Could TW actually do that? It seems a bit over-the-line (and illegal) for a private company to do. Wouldn't they just involve the police instead?
I doubt TW would do that without some kind of cease and desist notice first and definitely not without some government agency (police, FBI, something like that). There are legal torrents out there such as linux distributions which I have downloaded. Most of our other traffic is routed through encrypted channels.
It could have been completely random (most of the robbers in CLT seem to hit when the home owner is home and the homeowner shoots the perp). It could have been the pizza guy who made a comment about our screen. It could have been people in mocked up TW vans. It could have been corrupt TW employees.
I've resigned to the fact that my stuff is gone. It wasn't worth it to file a claim either since most of the stuff doesn't need to be replaced and i'd rather not make a claim for only a couple thousand over my deductible.
I consult to hospitals so at one point the stolen d20 laptop did have PHI but i wiped all that stuff when we changed our policies about accepting client databases.