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Man Uses Remote Logon To Help Find Laptop Thief

Posted by samzenpus on from the cyber-bloodhound dept.

After his computer was stolen, Jose Caceres used a remote access program to log on every day and watch it being used. The laptop was stolen on Sept. 4, when he left it on top of his car while carrying other things into his home. "It was kind of frustrating because he was mostly using it to watch porn," Caceres said. "I couldn't get any information about him." Last week the thief messed up and registered on a web site with his name and address. Jose alerted the police, who arrested a suspect a few hours later. The moral of the story: never go to a porn site where you have to register.

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  1. Makes sense by Kr4u53 · · Score: 5, Funny

    What else would someone use a stolen laptop for?

    1. Re:Makes sense by dexmachina · · Score: 5, Funny

      What else would someone use a laptop for, period?

    2. Re:Makes sense by Harmonious+Botch · · Score: 4, Funny

      What else would someone use a laptop for, period?

      Laptops get in the way...

    3. Re:Makes sense by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      Note to self: Post Anonymously when detailing sinister plans!!!!

    4. Re:Makes sense by negRo_slim · · Score: 3, Funny

      Laptops get in the way...

      Yes but the thermal stimulation is well worth it on a cold winter's eve as you watch your favorite bukkake vid by the light of an open fire.

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    5. Re:Makes sense by rugatero · · Score: 5, Funny

      Someone's dreaming of a white Christmas....

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    6. Re:Makes sense by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

      Yes but the thermal stimulation is well worth it on a cold winter's eve as you watch your favorite bukkake vid by the light of an open fire.

      ...I can't believe you got modded insightful for that.

    7. Re:Makes sense by fm6 · · Score: 2, Funny

      Tablet computers are better. They leave a hand free...

  2. Pft by inKubus · · Score: 5, Funny

    Talk about getting caught with your dick in your hand...

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  3. Re:This is not the first... by shbazjinkens · · Score: 5, Funny

    This is hardly the first time this has ever happened. Why is this on slashdot? Heck there are even better stories of this, such as a woman who used the laptop's webcam to !

    I wonder why he didn't just tap into the webcam on his computer while the perpetrator was... oh wait.

  4. Hey, that guy in the ski mask! by pizzach · · Score: 4, Funny

    CmdrTaco? Is that you?

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  5. TISM! by Director+of+Acronyms · · Score: 5, Funny

    For those in Australia : looks like his laptop was stolen by TISM. Especially considering the lyrics to this TISM song :

    http://www.stlyrics.com/songs/t/tism10923/beencaughtwankin434144.html

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  6. So frustrated.. by superdave80 · · Score: 4, Funny

    Yeah, it must have been sooooo frustrating to have to sit there and watch that porn. Poor bastard!

  7. Does he really wanna have his laptop back by bjoeg · · Score: 2, Funny

    The ending of the story is missing.

    "After police got hold of the thief and the laptop. Jose Caceres now has his laptop back at home..........with sticky buttons."

  8. Re:This hits close to home.. by Chrisq · · Score: 3, Funny

    Three days later, the entire town I live in was flooded with several feet of water from hurricane Ike.

    I really wish I had the foresight to install this kind of software on my laptop. Might have helped...

    I think protection from hurricanes is beyond its capabilities.

  9. Re:This is not the first... by utnapistim · · Score: 5, Funny

    In other words:

    1. get your laptop stolen by hot chick (or somebody else, according to your tastes).
    2. remote logon.
    3. wait for them to look at porn and activate camera
    4. ???
    5. profit!

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  10. Re:Not all reformats help by cp.tar · · Score: 4, Funny

    Linux: the laptop thief's choice.

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  11. Re:Not all reformats help by caluml · · Score: 4, Funny

    .... when I was looking at a hex dump of my BIOS for fun

    Do tell us more about your hobbies and pastimes!

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  12. Re:Not all reformats help by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    Let's see the thief get online when the LiveCD cannot recognize the laptop's WiFi.

    (*Ducks*)

  13. Re:What remote access technology? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    How could he knew the I address?

    THEN WHO WAS PHONE?

  14. oblig fail by Joe+the+Lesser · · Score: 4, Funny

    http://failblog.org/2008/10/01/christmas-candle-fail/

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