"G. Morgan" <G_Morgan@easy.com> wrote in message
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> http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/201...ed-for-spying/
>
> "The case revolves around a laptop that Clemens-Jeffrey, a substitute
> teacher, bought from one of her students in 2008.
>
> The laptop belonged to Clark County School District in Ohio, and had
> been stolen from one of its students in April 2008. Another student at
> Kiefer Alternative School subsequently purchased the laptop at a bus
> station for $40, even though he suspected it was stolen, and turned
> around and offered it to Clements-Jeffrey for $60.
>
> Clements-Jeffrey, who was a long-term substitute teacher at Kiefer, says
> the student told her his aunt and uncle had given him the laptop, but
> that he no longer needed it after getting a new one. She asserts she had
> no idea the computer was stolen
>
> Clements-Jeffrey, described in court papers as a 52-year-old widow, had
> recently renewed a romance with her high school sweetheart, Carlton
> Smith, who lived in Boston. In the course of their courtship, she
> exchanged sexually explicit email and instant messages with her beau,
> using the computer she had just purchased.
>
> What she didn't know was that Clark County School District, which
> legally owned the laptop, had purchased Absolute's theft recovery
> service, which includes the installation of its remote-recovery software
> LoJack, onto client computers. The system gives Absolute employees
> remote access to a stolen computer and allows them to record and
> intercept any data from the machine."

I don't think that the "I didn't know that it was stolen" defense is gonna fly.