Person Uses Remote Access to Catch Laptop Thief October 6, 2008
The AP reports that the owner of a stolen laptop was able to track down the person who stole his laptop by logging into a remote desktop application he had installed on the laptop. It took about a month of frustrated watching before the latop-thief finally entered his name and address on the stolen laptop when he was registering a website.
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.
This makes putting a remote desktop app on a laptop a pretty good idea. (via Gizmodo)
