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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)

submitted 2 weeks ago by lemmybea to c/london

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/45310808

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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[–] jdnewmil 30 points 2 weeks ago

maybe he should take backups more seriously. The damn disk could have failed and had just as unpleasant an outcome.