Online identity theft has been on the hype cycle for quite a while. But sometimes it is really helpful for Internet researchers to be reminded of the earthly aspects of existence. Such happened to me last Saturday, when my car fell victim to an offline identity theft.

Mini without identity

OK, it was Rugby Saturday, and yes, there was also Soccer, but is that enough to explain why somebody would bother to take the license plate from a car???


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Wolf Richter is a doctoral student at the Oxford Internet Institute (OII). His main focus is the law and economics of intangible goods in the age of the social web