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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 rugatero · · Score: 5, Funny

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

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  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. 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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  5. 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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