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His laptop with 4 years of cancer research was stolen. Now he wants the city to take theft more seriously | CBC (archive.ph)

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Western PhD student Aswin Sureshkumar lost more than four years of pancreatic cancer research when his laptop and two hard drivers[sic] were stolen out of a car on April 21. He's now pleading with Londoners to not only get the laptop back, but take theft more seriously.

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[–] jet@hackertalks.com 14 points 2 months ago

There are so many ways to backup data, and a researcher should be using some version control anyway. This is painful, but it's a good teachable lesson for the student.