Laptop thief busted by hidden camera and Internet people power!!!!!!!!

So a guy has his Laptop stolen and isnt getting much help from the fuzz, he decides to activate some Tracking App he downloaded and to his surprise it works!!! hes able to see the coordinates of where his lappy is and see photos of the guy who stole it, he eventually figures out its a taxi driver and gives the cops the address.
Due to being understaffed the police still cant help him but after setting up a blog about it and getting on twitter the resulting media flurry forced cops to act.

"It feels like the power of the Internet is on my side," Kaufman said. Under pressure from media outlets, the police were forced to take a second look at the case, and on the night of May 31, the thief was arrested.

GO INTERNET PEOPLE POWER!!!!!!!

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OK so its good that the guy gets his laptop back and its great that we can get Apps that let us do this but it all just seems a bit too easy.

I cant help but think there is a possibility TPTB if they chose to would be able to do this to anyones PC.

edited to say nevermind
carry on with the thread

yes, saw this guys pic on the
front page of CNN and thought
to myself .... where is he gonna
go now ???? with his face
plastered all over the internet.
lol

reply to post by boondock-saint


My bad,

Typed in laptop thief and this story didnt come up.

Ill have another look,

Cheers

that is awsome, do they have a program like that for pc laptops or is it mac only?!

reply to post by boondock-saint


I know, can you imagine the embarrassment

Everyone you know knowing that your a petty thief, hopefully this story will deter some other would be criminals:

reply to post by camouflaged


Im almost certain there would be something similar available for PC, I guess its just a matter of wether its publicly available or not

Double post