Never mind hacking, viruses, wireless networks and the like a few lads with big boots and little judgement kicked in the office door and made off with a motley collection of old laptops and hand helds. A P1 a PII and a Celeron - none had working batteries and they left the mains units.

Not a great haul for them but a wasted morning for us whilst the police dusted etc and one of the laptops had copy protected software worth a few thousand - if you happen to be into comms s/w development (which I kinda of doubt our “perps” are). Various other units have been damaged as they ripped stuff out in a rush - I assume they were working against to a time once the alarms were ringing.

It’s the waste that depresses me. When my car was done over I lost about