InfoTech - Laptop catches criminals red fingered
You know how it is - you go to a party and someone's left their nice new Mac sitting on the table so you steal it, take it home and start to use it. You know there's no way that anyone saw you take it so you're home free, right? Ha! You wish!
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Kait Duplaga may have a weird name but she has a quick mind and she remembered that her Mac has an optional package called "Back to My Mac" installed. It allows her to use another Mac to access her own. So she accessed her own machine over the internet, turned on the service and that allowed her to see exactly what her own computer was being used for.
That, of itself is pretty neat but it was what she did next that really helped police: remotely accessing the Mac's camera, she took a photograph of the user, then showed it around her friends. Someone recognised the miscreant party-goer and the police were informed.
They went and knocked on his door finding not just the Mac but other property taken in a burglary shortly after the party.
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