Did you manage to ask him how he knew the vehicle had laptops inside?

ION, if a laptop thief can afford to drive, safe to say business is doing well on that front! No? :)

On 29 July 2014 22:44, Memusi via skunkworks <skunkworks@mailman-prod.my.co.ke> wrote:

Today we were sending off a colleague at cuea and some stupid laptop thief decided to break into a car a won himself 2 laptops.lucky we nabbed the suspect and after some involvin the police he he was forced to disolose where the laptops were hidden. Funny enough he had a car parked near the scene of crime
Anyway he is at karen hardy police station.

On Jun 5, 2014 4:59 PM, "William Muriithi" <william.muriithi@gmail.com> wrote:

> I have never tried before but I guess those who leave their laptops on
> hibernation run the risk of being found by strangers.
> Golden rule of thumbs: turn of your machine while on transit.
>

Think hibernation is fine, the problem may be suspend. Hibernate dump all the RAM contents to swap and turn off the laptop completely. Suspend leave some circuits active, but can't see why Bluetooth should be active to be Frank.  I am curious to see how true this is, and will update this thread when I test it

Muriithi
> Regards,
> Jossey.

>
> On Monday, June 2, 2014, Joe Maina <maina307@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > @ Jimmy i was wondering the same thing,answers anyone ?
> >
> >
> > On 2 June 2014 11:17, Jimmy Thuo <jimmy.thuo@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > I have heard many people talk about that bluetooth theory but my question
> > is.
> > .Can bluetooth be detected in a laptop thats off?
> > On 2 Jun 2014 11:02, "Nicholas Mutinda" <mutindah@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > the thieves use a bluetooth phone to search for devices around them. if
> > you have left your laptop on and it has bluetooth then they are sure there
> > is a laptop in the car
> > On May 30, 2014 9:23 AM, "Oliver Ndegwa" <olie.ndegwa@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > The location outside I & M is a well known hot spot for laptop thieves. I
> > know several people whose machines have been stolen in the same process,
> > break into the car. what is worse is they sniff laptops in the boot of a
> > car. How ? only God knows. As for me I was lucky because after they broke
> > in they were seen by the guards outside safaricom care center and one of
> > them ran after the thief and caught up with him at 20th Century. I was
> > lucky to recover. But yes this is a case of concern. Probably we need to do
> > a match to I & M and demand the city council to behave themselves. They are
> > quick to take your 3sok for parking but they don't care what happens to
> > your car or your belongings. Sometimes I feel as if they are part of the
> > game with those boys..
> >
> > Oliver
> >
> >
> >

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