Epistaxis

There's this girl who sits in the very front row of my music history class, literally within the professor's reaching distance, and has her laptop computer on during most of the lecture. She's often late. Once she gets her computer running, she doesn't use it to take notes (like some people do, but I think it would only make it more difficult). She wanders through Facebook, reads her e-mail, and even sometimes writes e-mail. For real. Right in the front row.

Let me point out that I'm not stalking her. Anyone sitting in the front four rows can see what she's doing on her computer, and can't really help it anyway because there are so many colorful popup ads that flash on and off.

Today, I saw her reading e-mail, and then she logged into PayPal. It looked like the URL in her locatoin bar was a little longer than "https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_login-run", but I was just a little too far away to see. So I thought to myself: "What if she's just read a fradulent e-mail from someone pretending to be PayPal, and is about to give the scammer her password?"

If I knew for sure she was about to do that, could I lean toward her and tell her to stop right away? It's probably not so ethical of me to look at what she's doing on her laptop, even though there's no way to avoid having my eyes drawn to it (it's a public nuisance). Still, if I could have prevented identity theft, maybe I should have. But then, maybe she deserves it for such flagrant disregard for classroom etiquette (not to mention the naïveté of biting on one of those "You Must Verify Your Account Information" phishing hooks).