Man Uses Remote Logon To Help Find Laptop Thief

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.

Comments

What remote access technology?

[Max_W]

How could be this done? How could he connect to his laptop without knowing the IP address?

I use remote access, but I have to type in the IP address to connect. How could he knew the I address?

I read this story several times but nowhere the software name is mentioned.

You think you've seen stupid?

[mcrbids]

In nearby Oroville, CA, a thief robbed a bank at gunpoint, took off with several thousand dollars in cash, and then returned later in the day - to the same bank - to deposit the cash into his own bank account.

no, I'm not kidding.

(And this text box for idle just teh suxorz)

Not all reformats help

[apankrat]

Q. Can ComputracePlus be detected?

A. .. snip .. The Agent can survive a hard drive re-format, F-disk command and hard drive re-partitioning.

http://www.absolute.com/computraceplus/faqs.asp

Re:Not all reformats help

[jimicus]

There is custom hardware. It's built into the BIOS on most modern Dell laptops.