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Police confirm muggers tied doctor to a tree and demanded his laptop password

Jamaica Plain News gets the scoop on the link between the patient data Brigham and Women's hospital reported missing and the man tied to a tree during one of the Jamaica Pond muggings in September.

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and BWH waited until mid-November to notify people?!

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They waited until November for the press release.

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Probably at the behest of the police doing an active investigation. As Mr. Fish pointed out, this is a serious crime.

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MGL C. 265 Section 21. Whoever, with intent to commit larceny or any felony, confines, maims, injures or wounds, or attempts or threatens to kill, confine, maim, injure or wound, or puts any person in fear, for the purpose of stealing from a building, bank, safe, vault or other depository of money, bonds or other valuables, or by intimidation, force or threats compels or attempts to compel any person to disclose or surrender the means of opening any building, bank, safe, vault or other depository of money, bonds, or other valuables, shall whether he succeeds or fails in the perpetration of such larceny or felony, be punished by imprisonment in the state prison for life or for any term of years.

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Tying this Docotor to a tree (confining) and compelling him to disclose the means of opening the phone full of information, these perps are looking at a life sentence when caught. The method and risk of a life sentence seem rather unusual for a Boston cell phone robbery. Definitely more to this.

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just wanted to be able to use the computer and phone so they'd be able to sell them after the robbery.

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Pfft, unnecessary. You can just reset them.

Look, these guys are clearly not master criminals involved in some sort of scientific/industrial espionage like some people were speculating earlier. They're small-time, and maybe just mugging people for the thrill. In one of their hold ips they took some papers and a mans wedding ring; what could that possibly net them? A couple hundred bucks, tops? It certainly doesn't suggest a long-term plan.

If they actually took the laptop and phone, they didn't need the password to fence them. The story about being mugged for a laptop of patient data is sounding a little bit like it has shades of Charles Stuart.

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I think we've established in the previous post a few days ago that this doesn't always work, especially if Intel Trusted Module Platform is used, along with something like Dell Data Protection. The item would be a brick without the password (and yes even if you went in and tried to reset the motherboard or swap out the hard drive)

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Years ago I had a car that had a theft proof radio. You take it and once disconnected from the 12V power, needed to be reset by a dealership.

For free, believe it or not.

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All Honda car radios have that anti theft but we are given a code when we purchase the car. If the power is cut. the code will get the radio working again.

I assume it's a good deterrent since one of my Honda's had a replaced stereo (Sony) and it wasn't long before my windows were smashed at noon in broad daylight on Everett Ave in Chelsea, and my radio was gone.

Never had the problem when I stuck with the factory installed stereo.

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Some congressman decided that the doctor was engaging in "secret science" and hired thugs to liberate the data for the good of all Americans and their corporations, and to save us from the EPA.

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Shades of what? You mean like in a totally made up story? I dunno, if they tied him to a tree, there's probably, you know, physical evidence.
They don't have to be master criminals. The crime, by its' very nature, seems like a crime of opportunity.
I'm thinking that the person was tied to a tree and threatened.

New rule: All medical personnel with confidential records in their possession will have them encrypted or be accompanied by BC football players.
This also applies to Obamacare, Target, Home Depot, Staples. Hell, just encrypt everything:

http://it.slashdot.org/story/14/11/18/1830229/launching-2015-a-new-certi...

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he had a purdy mouth?

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Is worth about $25 at your favorite stolen goods buyer, while a fully working one might net you closer to $100. The fact that those animals did all this over $75 is pretty damn scary, to say the least. It's a damn shame they didn't try to pull this on an armed trigger-happy off-duty cop. Or swirly/lesponge/adamg/etc, for that matter, that might have fixed their world view up a bit.

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Why would the cop have to be trigger happy? Maybe we just need more armed citizens.

Flame away, I have to go gut some pumpkins.

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I'm a gun nut but have serious reservations about shooting anyone. Especially a 13 year old.

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A couple of idiots try a simple robbery, botch it up, it gets way out of hand, etc.

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Did the police confirm that the doc was tied to a tree based on the doc's say-so? Or have they confirmed it by interviewing witnesses?

Still smells fishy to me.

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