Stupidest thief ever? Not unless he gets caught. But the tools to catch him are there: Facebook can tell the police where he accessed the computer, while crowdsourcing might identify him. Here's hoping that the power of the Internet makes theft a little more costly--in one case at least.
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Megan McArdle is a columnist at Bloomberg View and a former senior editor at The Atlantic. Her new book is The Up Side of Down.