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Mar 11, 2009, 01:17 AM
 
= baxillion dollaros,

May be old. TFB

What may be the largest investor fraud committed by a single person may have been hatched on a Mac.

These are shots are from ABC’s 20/20 recent special about Bernie Madoff, showing him in his Manhattan penthouse whiling away the hours (without remorse, they suggest) on a MacBook Pro.
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Mar 11, 2009, 02:38 AM
 
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Mar 11, 2009, 11:37 AM
 
I see a switcher commercial!
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Mar 11, 2009, 04:23 PM
 
He'll probably claim that he didn't know he was committing such massive fraud because of all of the glare on his glossy screen.

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Mar 11, 2009, 05:42 PM
 
Originally Posted by SpaceMonkey View Post
He'll probably claim that he didn't know he was committing such massive fraud because of all of the glare on his glossy screen.
     
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Mar 12, 2009, 11:02 AM
 
$50 billion will buy a lot of MacBooks.

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Mar 12, 2009, 11:24 AM
 
Is anyone else creeped out by the photos? Talk about spying. Sure the guy is pure sleaze, but that kind of voyeurism is sickening.
     
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Mar 13, 2009, 05:25 PM
 
Why is this news at all? Would anyone have cared if he used Windows? Or did we all assume OS X was impenetrable to d*****bag users?
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Mar 13, 2009, 08:26 PM
 
Originally Posted by Railroader View Post
Is anyone else creeped out by the photos? Talk about spying. Sure the guy is pure sleaze, but that kind of voyeurism is sickening.

Not any more than the usual "celebrity" hounding. Looking at someone by a window in a lit room at nighttime isn't spying.*

Snapping photos of Woz taking a leak? Different story.



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