Spector later called his impact on Thief, "at best, minimal".
A laptop stolen from a Riverside home resurfaced at a Cicero electronics store--along with a hint at the thief's identity saved to the hard drive.
Still, Mr. Dunston marvels at the thief's audacity.
She told me she had simply looked at the thief who had my wallet, demanded "Give me that," reached over and took it right out of his hands.
But inside, he rages at the thief trying to snatch the election, and is tormented by a dripping acid of what-ifs and what-nexts.
In the adult version of that story, the giant is Cosby, sober and good-naturedly outraged at the "thief" in his family who goes through his pockets while he sleeps.
Often, these curses would be aimed at a thief, urging the goddess to visit all kinds of discomforts on the miscreant ("May he or she be unable to urinate," for example).
His bike-seat lock, the Wedgie, which he licensed to Kryptonite, was a product of the Curse Method: someone walked into Levy's lab one day yelling abuse at the thief of his bicycle seat, and thereafter Levy noticed that Cambridge sidewalks were full of bicycles without seats and set about solving the problem.
Besides this method, there are other ways at a thief's disposal for password cracking such as by merely guessing your password (using your pet's name is a common mistake), by using tools such as keyloggers, phishing attacks, social engineering, dumpster diving, peeking over your shoulder, or of course, buying it directly from cyber thieves like CyberVor, etc.
Acting on instinct I picked up a burning stick and began to strike at the thief.
You're astounded at the thief's audacity and baffled by her stupidity and meanness.
