Macbook User Helps Collar Laptop Thieves
Category: MobilePosted: May 12, 2008 10:00AM
Author: Nemo
When thieves broke into an apartment and made off with over $5,000 in electronics and other items, the victims probably thought they would never see their items again. What the thieves weren't counting on however was that one of the purloined items was a Mac laptop and its owner, Kait Duplaga, was an Apple store employee. After a friend called her up after the burglary to report her machine was online, Ms. Duplaga accessed her machine using its Back to My Mac program and activated the laptop's built-in webcam. As soon as the person using the Mac sat down, she had the computer take his picture. When she showed the picture around, one of her roommates recognized the alleged thief as having attended a party at the apartment a few weeks earlier. Once presented with the photograph and the name of the perpetrator, the police were able to make an arrest and retrieve most of the stolen items.
