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Most Embarrassing Online Mishaps 16

by Jason Rowan on September 10, 2008 at 06:00 AM



Occasionally all the technological gadgets, online services and networks in our lives align to achieve something really impressive.

After a company had a laptop stolen/robbed in September 2007, it discovered a photograph of a shirtless man on its Flickr page. Flickrbooth, an application that uploads photos taken with the laptop's built-in camera to a Flickr page, had done some handy detective work. An online "have you seen this man" campaign flooded the Web with the man's photo, leading the suspect -- who looks eerily like Brit singer Robbie Williams in the above photo -- to turn himself in with the laptop, a heart-warming tale of online kismet.

In related news, an Apple store employee had her MacBook laptop stolen last May and used the built-in Webcam and Back to My Mac feature to see just who was at her computer. She took the photos to the cops and the perps were arrested and charged with second-degree burglary.

LESSON #15: Check out flickrbooth for your laptop, and keep your shirt (and mask) on around computers.


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