I wouldn't normally post a link like this...

[dadaist]

...but it's really interesting reading, interesting for all the wrong reasons....

http://blastradius.blogspot.com/2005/04/world-of-pain.html

Full background is given on the page, with more links, if a reader desires (but if you want to see the webcast it probably has to be done soon).

[Lilith]

Very funny...I watched that whole thing like a dumb ass! Gets good at 48:50, well it's only 48:43 long!

[dadaist]

I just read the transcript on blogspot, and I didn't think my jaw could drop any lower :)
Ohhhhh man I kinda wish I was at Berkeley just to hear what happens next.

[dadaist]

The MP3 link from boingboing is good, I'm listening to it now (it was clearly done on a Mac, I overheard a standard OS X beep). I don't have bittorrent, so I can't check the quicktime movie link, also on boingboing.

[Lilith]

http://one.berkeley.edu/modules/news/article.php?storyid=345

A variety of links there^^^

[Lilith]

I haven't found any links that actually show the professor speaking of the laptop...only a audio of just the threats. All the videos end at 48:43. Something seems off.

Has the matter been resolved? Frankly the school is having much more serious problems in regards to the other laptop that was stolen that contained tons of student data.

[dadaist]

Wellit's also been mentioned "What was a professor doing with a laptop with such serious and probably UNENCRYPTED data in a classroom?" It does seem a bit fishy.

[Lilith]

The voice on the audio sounds dif than the video to me and the story is not all ove r the web. Considering it would be coming on the heels of the previous laptop fiasco, I would think it would be. But I have no clue. The idea was amusing but it seems far-fetched and it apparently can not be corroborated...at least not by me :D

[Sharni]

I think its a put on myself...but again thats just me

[Lilith]

LOL no it's me too :D