{"id":2534,"date":"2011-05-28T21:40:41","date_gmt":"2011-05-29T03:40:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thelogbook.com\/earl\/?p=2534"},"modified":"2011-05-28T21:40:41","modified_gmt":"2011-05-29T03:40:41","slug":"wild-card","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelogbook.com\/earl\/2011\/05\/28\/wild-card\/","title":{"rendered":"Wild card"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thelogbook.com\/stills\/star-wars\/78-holiday-special--instructions.jpg\" alt=\"Holiday Special dude\" class=alignright \/>Dear Laura who presumably lives in Fayetteville,<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve got your 4GB microSD card if you want it.  You forgot to remove it when you returned a Sylvania Android tablet to Hastings in Fayetteville.  (My wife, in what can best be described as a long-simmering fit of envy over my tablet, bought one of her own today.)<\/p>\n<p>For whatever it&#8217;s worth, you forgot to use the &#8220;factory reset&#8221; option to wipe all your private data from the device.  I realized this when I saw that the tablet was already localized to Fayetteville, and then went to add my wi-fi router to the &#8220;approved&#8221; wi-fi points on the tablet and saw that there were a lot of other wi-fi points already &#8220;approved&#8221;.  Just for laughs I decided to see if whoever returned the tablet without wiping it had left an SD card in the slot.  Yep, you did.  Man, I&#8217;d be pissed if I did that &#8211; even if I didn&#8217;t want the tablet anymore (really, it&#8217;s kind of a neat little gadget if you&#8217;re not expecting it to be an iPad &#8211; you should&#8217;ve given it a chance), I would&#8217;ve been able to use the card for something else like my phone.  My wife got an 8GB microSD to go in the tablet; she doesn&#8217;t need the one you or your folks paid hard-earned money for.<\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s more, I didn&#8217;t look at anything that you had on the card or the tablet.  I simply wasn&#8217;t interested.  I wiped the device memory and put the card away in a little microSD case.  I&#8217;d hope that anyone else in this situation would do the same thing, but I think we all know that&#8217;s not too likely.  I&#8217;m one of the good guys.<\/p>\n<p>If you want the thing back, let me know.  Seriously.  I&#8217;ll mail it to you.<\/p>\n<p>You&#8217;ve <em>got<\/em> to be careful about this stuff, folks.  Despite doing the right thing and not looking at anything more sensitive than the machine settings, I already know that Laura in Fayetteville owned this.  If I&#8217;d looked at the SD card, I bet I could find out all kinds of things.  But I&#8217;m the kind of dweeb who averts his eyes when someone&#8217;s typing their password or punching in their PIN.  <strong>If you don&#8217;t take the security of your private info seriously, how do you expect the next guy to, no matter how well-intentioned the next guy may be?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In the meantime, Mrs. Green is really enjoying Laura&#8217;s Android tablet.  \ud83d\ude06<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Laura who presumably lives in Fayetteville, I&#8217;ve got your 4GB microSD card if you want it. You forgot to remove it when you returned a Sylvania Android tablet to Hastings in Fayetteville. (My wife, in what can best be described as a long-simmering fit of envy over my tablet, bought one of her own today.) For whatever it&#8217;s worth, you forgot to use the &#8220;factory reset&#8221; option to wipe all your private data from the device. I realized this when I saw that the tablet was already localized to Fayetteville, and then went to add my wi-fi router to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[80],"class_list":["post-2534","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gadgetology","tag-tablet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelogbook.com\/earl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2534","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelogbook.com\/earl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelogbook.com\/earl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelogbook.com\/earl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelogbook.com\/earl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2534"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelogbook.com\/earl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2534\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelogbook.com\/earl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelogbook.com\/earl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelogbook.com\/earl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}