Girl Recovers Her Stolen Mac By Remotely Using Its Built-In Webcam
Here's a funny little story we saw in the Journal News: Last month, an Apple Store employee had a party in her White Plains, New York apartment. According to police reports, on April 27 -- a couple of weeks later -- her place was cleared out to the tune of about $5,000 worth of electronics, which included two flat-screen televisions, two iPods, gaming consoles, computer games, DVDs, and her new Mac. Days later, a friend saw that the burglary victim seemed to be online, but gave her a call just to make sure. Since she was running Leopard with Back to My Mac, the burglary victim logged in remotely and activated Photo Booth via the screen-share function, which let her see who was on the other laptop using the Mac's built-in camera.
Guess what -- it turns out that the thieves were some "friends" who were at the party a few weeks back. She took the photos to the cops and -- voila -- busted! The alleged thieves, Edmon Shahikian, 23, and Ian Frias, 20, both of the Bronx, have been charged with second-degree burglary and fourth-degree criminal possession of stolen property.
Go-go crafty nerd girl!
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
StrangeBum @ May 12th 2008 11:48AM
Sweet!
I love these types of news stories. And it makes me wish I could find a chick like that with some great computer know-how. Most girls I meet these days couldn't tell you the difference between a HDD and RAM.
Not that they are all like that, I know there are plenty out there that do know there stuff, I just haven't found one yet myself.
MissBeth @ May 12th 2008 3:19PM
WAY TO GO!!!