Shuki Alburati has been arrested in connection with the laptop that was stolen from U.C. Berkeley this spring, on which resided the personal and confidential data of nearly 100,000 U.C. Berkeley students and former students. Some of you may recall the lecture that U.C. Berkeley professor Jasper Rines delivered the day after his laptop was stolen - scathing and scary.

Shuki Alburati claims that he bought it from someone, the woman believed to be the original thief, for $300. Alburati said that the woman promised that the laptop was not stolen.

Alburati then sold the laptop on eBay for $1,159, a more than $1,000 profit, well, unless you take into account his bail, which has been set at $20,000.

That laptop is now in the possession of the authorities, who say that the hard drive had been…

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