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Mac Thief Caught Thanks To Applescript & Timbuktu

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the funny-late-night-story dept.

el.cerrito.slasher sent in an amusing bit found on MacSlash. This story is a tale of a stolen iMac that just happened to be running Timbuktu (a remote control program like VNC I believe). Well the stolen box kept getting used, and the owner was able to track it down through a variety of amusing Timbuktu Fu. Funny story.

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  1. Replying to myself.... by seizer · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Bloody morning classes. They distract me from paying proper attention to Slashdot :-)

    *oops*

    1. Re:Replying to myself.... by gazbo · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      People tend to overuse the term BSOD. If you get a couple of BSODs and then return to the desktop, it was not a BSOD.

      Install NT/2000, then play with your hardware while the computer is on. Then you'll see what a *real* BSOD looks like, and understand the 'Death' part.

  2. Re:Hey CmdrTaco! by cstrommen · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    There's something called the earth.. It's.. like.. divided into 24 time-zones... Hello?

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  3. Re:Why even bother in the first place? by Aqua+OS+X · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Anonymous Coward

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  4. Re:applescript strikes back by Alan+Partridge · · Score: 2, Offtopic

    simplistic and arcane? do you prefer to speak to your friends in quadratic equations rather than English then? maybe you just speak Klingon

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  5. Re:Can I do this with my laptop? by BrookHarty · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    So does all those people who download mp3's that are copyrighted idiots? They could be fined 10s of thousands of dollars...

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