We found an amazing tale of recovering stolen laptops that involves computers and the Internet, sex and intrigue, spying and the police on MSN’s tech page, reported by PC World Magazine.
It began when David Krop had two laptops–a Toshiba and an Apple MacBook–stolen from inside his locked SUV. Tthe police offered little hope, and he was left thinking of all the personal information stored on them, and that he had never even bothered to set up a user password to shield the laptops’ contents.
Then he remembered that he had installed a trial version of remote access software called LogMeIn on his Toshiba laptop, designed to allow a user to access the desktop of a remote PC. He connected, and could view the desktop of his stolen Toshiba laptop—where the current possessor was surfing porn sites. Sex, check.
Now, for the spying and intrigue. Over the coursed of a few hours, the user checked e-mail, updated his Facebook and MySpace accounts, and placed ads with his phone number on Craigslist.com.
Krop began capturing screenshots as the person using his laptop perused hundreds of e-mail messages in a Hotmail.com account. Eventually, Krop decided to switch to using his video camera to record what was going on. And then the laptop’s user initiated a video chat with someone else, and Krop could see and record the suspect’s face.
In less than three hours, Krop knew the individual’s name, e-mail addresses and cell phone number and had a recording of him on videotape. Then Krop paid $10 to an online service that sold him the address linked to the man’s cell phone number.
With the evidence he’d gathered, the police were able to recover the two laptops and arrest the thief, and all with internet speed!
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