Owner watches laptop thief surf porn:)
 

WHITE PLAINS, New York (AP) -- A laptop thief got caught -- after the computer owner tracked him remotely.

Jose Caceres said he used a remote access program to log on every day and watch his computer being used, and then tipped off police, leading to the arrest of a 34-year-old male suspect.

Caceres, 27, of White Plains, said his computer was stolen in early September when he left it on top of his car while carrying things into his home.

His first efforts to figure out who stole the laptop by logging on remotely were stymied, Caceres said. "It was kind of frustrating because he was mostly using it to watch porn," he said. "I couldn't get any information on him."

But then the suspect typed in a name and address to register on a Web site, and a few hours later, police caught the suspect.

The man was charged with grand larceny, said police Lt. Eric Fischer in Wednesday editions of the Journal News.

Tech-savvy victims are increasingly supplying police with information leading to arrests, authorities said. In May, a White Plains woman whose laptop was stolen also used remote access technology to sign on, then activated the stolen computer's camera and snapped pictures of the man using it.

"This is what happens when you have victims who get involved and use the available technology to their advantage," said Fischer, commander of the White Plains police detective division.

that must be so exciting, to catch someone like that. yay. :)

with my luck I'd turn on the camera and catch the fat hideous thief beating off or screwing the dog or something...

Thats pretty cool that they could do that. Bet the theives were suprised when they got busted. Specially the one with the picture taken!

Would you really want the laptop back after that? That was not a question! :1orglaugh

lol..must indeed be cool to catch someone that stole from you

Very cool...

:)

my suggestion to any thief out there, format the HD before connecting it to the net

note to self

format all stolen laptops

*ucking amateur :1orglaugh

format c: :pimp

Kinda related, I'm currently working on a computer for my car which uses an old mobile (cell) phone and GPRS to connect to the internet and phone home regularly. It also has GPS and a video camera pointing out the windscreen. If anyone ever steals it, I'll be able to see their exact location, and what's in front of the car.

(The computer isn't specifically for this situation but as per the OP it will help if it ever does get stolen...)

:1orglaugh:1orglaugh:thumbsup:thumbsup

haha, that's awesome

Note to everyone. Password protect your shit.

hilarious about the woman taking pictures..

Nice! :thumbsup

if you password protect your OS then all they have left to do is to format the thing.
if you want to track after it's being stolen, in such unfortunate circumstance, it makes sense to have one login account w/o password

LOL, I do that shit all the time with my laptop to friends, they come over an borrow it, I use my screen share and take over their screen and give them messages from God etc... it's pretty funny. One time my friend was buying shit on iTunes I was watching from my office, popped up a textedit screen and said "No, don't buy that song it sucks" she fucking freaked out.

I've never played around with remote access from my laptop, how easy is it to set up so you can access your webcam like that?

i think you need something like dyndns to run, otherwise how would you know where to connect :)

what program allows you to connect to your laptop if you don't know the ip?

was probably a Mac, comes standard as long as you have Mobile Me account. As long as my computer is on at home, I can be on my laptop anywhere and run programs on my tower, and vice versa, or I can watch the programs being run, it's called Back to My Mac.

Was that before or after you emptied your sack over the pics she uploaded to her AFF account and read through her web mail? I wonder why she freaked lol.

This is a great story. Some people are so stupid!

dumb story :321GFY

Crooks usually aren't the smartest people, otherwise they wouldn't need to resort to stealing.

Chalk one up for the good guys

porn will get you every time

haha awesome... so owned :)