2009/11/13 spike <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:spike66@att.net">spike66@att.net</a>></span><br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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<div><font face="Arial" size="2"><a href="http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/11/12/facebook.alibi/index.html" target="_blank">http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/11/12/facebook.alibi/index.html</a></font></div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="2"></font> </div> <div><font face="Arial" size="2"><span>Better idea: set up
a contraption that can be triggered by a cell phone call, robber drives across
town, calls home, phone ringer is rigged to drop something on the send key, pull
off robbery, go home, hope some yahoo didn't call her trying to
sell her carpet cleaning service a minute after she left the
house.</span></font></div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="2"><span></span></font><br></div></div></blockquote></div>You could avoid all the mechanical failure by using remote desktop software on your smart phone.<br><br>"This is a 19-year-old kid. He's not a criminal genius setting up an
elaborate alibi for himself," he said. "This is not the kind of thing
someone would fake."<br><br>Yeah, because it would take a criminal genius to make a facebook update. I am disappointed that this could ever be seen as proof of anything much less "an unbeatable alibi." I might have understood if this happened in a less tech-savvy part of the country - but it was New York. <br>
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