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"Back To My Mac" Catches a Thief
robipilot writes "Mac stolen, Mac comes online, owner connects using 'Back to My Mac,' owner takes picture of culprit, and voila, criminal caught. OK, it wasn't quite that simple, but here's an interesting story of using some built-in technology on the Mac to recover a stolen laptop."
I'm curious to know how would taking a picture of a musical instrument help in this matter...
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Ohhh, Okay... The girls can look, too.
What?
did something like this in 2000. See p. 15 of this 3 MB zipped Powerpoint.
See also P-p-p-Powerbook! for a possible laugh.
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It was nice of those guys to stand in front of her computer and pose for her like they were in mug shots. It's almost like they knew they did something wrong! Oh wait...
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This is Slashdot. Many laptop using geeks have them open, turned on and pointing at them during "personal activities" in orgies with Playmates and supermodels.
In the early days of webcams I used to work for this tech company, the bos (a techofile) had just set up a webcam from his computer in the London office to his computer in the New York office. He then flow to New York, a cople of guys and I where working quite late, when I see this other junior guy sat in the boss's chair saying with his legs on the boss's desk imitating the boss's voice "I am the boss and I am gay". When suddenly the computer screen turned on and he saw the boss telling him "YOU ARE FIRED". It was so funny to see this guy's face! (in fairness, the boss was gay ...)
here's a little poem i wrote entitled
"WHEN I STEAL YOUR LAPTOP"
When i steal your laptop
i'm going to use it offline
so i can harvest your personal info
with a data miner i have on my usb keychain
then i'm going to wipe the os clean
and change the mac address on your network card
and sell the fucker on kijiji
i'll meet you in the arby's parking lot
to sell you back your own machine
that you no longer recognize
because I put hello kitty decals on it.
And, oddly enough, I have a .25" piece of tape which can defeat any malicious code anybody may have inserted.
His first draft containing her Social, Blood Type, City of Birth, and Mothers Maiden name was lost when his notebook was stolen.
It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong.
Not stealing macbooks? How else can we afford them :)
---- Booth was a patriot ----
...only in IE 6 - but then it's *really* awkward.
The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources. - Albert Einstein
We care because I have it on good authority that women often use their Macs after having just come out of the shower, a good workout, being smeared in grits, rolling in Jell-O, bathing in whipped cream, and/or while do a self-breast exam. That's why we care!
You act like you haven't had your domain sqatted on by Jenny's Personal Co-Ed Webcam Sexperience after missing a payment that one time that it happened to me.
Yes, it can. If you want pictures of tape.