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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.
What else would someone use a stolen laptop for?
Never leave your laptop on top of your car when carrying other things home!
What, did you think this thing was portable?
Talk about getting caught with your dick in your hand...
Cool! Amazing Toys.
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.
I wonder why he didn't just tap into the webcam on his computer while the perpetrator was... oh wait.
CmdrTaco? Is that you?
Once you start despising the jerks, you become one.
I've seen a thief who was so stupid, that he stole a kid's bike from (directly!) across the back alley, and then left the stolen bike by the back door.
He was, apparently, both surprised and indignant when the father of the child whose bike was stolen came over for a visit.... wielding a baseball bat.
Sometimes boldness is in fashion. Sometimes only the brave will be bold.
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
Never look back at the carnage.
Yeah, it must have been sooooo frustrating to have to sit there and watch that porn. Poor bastard!
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)
I have no problem with your religion until you decide it's reason to deprive others of the truth.
Yeah. Thieves who steal laptops want _easy_.
;).
If they didn't mind hard they'd have got a job or started their own companies, or stolen something more challenging and rewarding
So what you do on your laptop is to create an account specially for thieves to use. Call it Honey if you like - with no password, or the password hint = instructions on how to get in.
Then your own account has a password, to keep the thief out, from deleting your encrypted stuff etc.
This way when the thief steals the laptop, they turn it on, click on "Your Account", get password prompt, click on Honey, get in straight - whoopee.
Immediately the stuff is launched to log data about the thief and his surroundings - webcam, microphone set to record, and then the data is uploaded.
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
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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.
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!
Tie two birds together: although they have four wings, they cannot fly. (The blind man)
http://failblog.org/2008/10/01/christmas-candle-fail/
"I only speak the truth"
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