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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ruin Explorer" data-source="post: 9859301" data-attributes="member: 18">If they'd just got the PC that would be totally plausible, like taken it out of the box and gone "What the hell?!". People buy stuff all the time without checking the ports, including experts. Or if the laptop was something they'd stolen or just been handed, rather than their own laptop.If the port was a small port easily visually confused with other small ports, I could buy it, like USB-C and Mini-Displayport, or USB-C and a specialized power cable port or the classic, USB-C and Micro-USB or Mini-USB. Hell, if they confused Displayport and HDMI, even, I could buy that, because you might not pay close attention.But USB-A is a massive and extremely important kind of port given huge numbers of devices solely or primarily use it (mice and keyboards particularly, and there's no way Neagley doesn't use a mouse sometimes - even with a wireless one the dongle will use it). It doesn't look like any other ports unless you're new to technology (and this person was supposed to be an expert). There is no-one in the world who is competent enough to hack stuff, but doesn't know if their own damn laptop which they've had for months/years has a USB-A port (unless they recently suffered a TBI maybe).There were a thousand outs here which could have made the scene plausible, but Reacher bravely threaded that needle and avoided all possible plausible explanations!Absolutely right.Besides NDAs, the vast majority of non-competes particularly in the UK are either totally non-enforceable or have durations which well beyond the 6 months or so which might plausibly be enforceable in a UK court (maybe a bit longer in a specialist field with very high remuneration, but you can't have one so broad stop someone working at their profession), or are just ludicrously broad, but employers continue to hand them out because they're essentially legal wishful thinking. Personally I think solicitors who knowingly sign off on unenforceable contracts should face legal sanctions (certainly repeat offenders should), but the law society hasn't sanctioned anyone for nonsensical non-competes yet AFAIK. They have sanctioned at least a couple of solicitors for pushing NDAs about criminal acts and telling people they couldn't talk to the police/lawyers though. I do think there's also a winking element with non-competes where both the person signing and the people instructing them to sign know it's bollocks, but the bosses of the people instructing the signing don't really understand that, and it's essentially fake peace-of-mind for those bosses.</blockquote>

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