Man Uses Remote Logon to Nab Laptop Thief

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Man Uses Remote Logon to Nab Laptop Thief

I guess this guy should have stuck to watching porn on the stolen laptop and he wouldn't have been caught. Let this be a valuable lesson to all you thieves….sit around watching porn and you're safe.


His first efforts to figure out who stole the laptop by logging on remotely were stymied, Caceres said. "It was kind of frustrating because he was mostly using it to watch porn," he said. "I couldn't get any information on him." But then the suspect typed in a name and address to register on a Web site, and a few hours later, police caught the suspect.
 
Tech-savvy victims are increasingly supplying police with information leading to arrests, authorities said. In May, a White Plains woman whose laptop was stolen also used remote access technology to sign on, then activated the stolen computer's camera and snapped pictures of the man using it.

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"This is what happens when you have victims who get involved and use the available technology to their advantage," said Fischer, commander of the White Plains police detective division.

Gee, how well spoken that detective is :rolleyes:
 
Thieves are stupid. If I stole a laptop, the first thing I would do (After backing up all the data) is wipe the thing. If the previous owner had installed any back doors like Adeona, wiping it would remove it.
 
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