A thief found out the hard way not to pass laptops with tracking software. Joshua Kaufman victim uses a $ 15 program called hidden in his MacBook to collect photos of the thief. Their efforts were ignored until Kaufman began to Twitter and dissemination of history. Encouraged the police to stop Muthanna Alde-Bashi and retrieve MacBook Kaufman.
Call it digital detective in the era of high technology. MacBook for a man steals. Triggers a request for $ 15, fit pictures of the alleged thief, publishes a blog, and two months later, the relevant equipment Products / Services is recovered and the suspect is arrested by the police.
The police in Oakland, California, did not immediately into action, however. The event was a huge boom in social media.
Twitter Help
According to the blog maintained by Joshua Kaufman, whose Apple MacBook was stolen from her Oakland, California, apartment on March 21, reported the crime immediately and then began to collect photos of the person using your computer with the help of Hidden, a application that lived up to its name. Was published on his blog photos Tumblr of a man sleeping, using the computer, and driving (with a laptop Relevant Products / Services open).
But the crime was given low priority, obviously, because the value of the equipment is relatively low compared with other goods, until Kaufman began the photos than 6,000 Twitter followers after he has a solution in the location of your computer.
Tweets links to articles by Kaufman, this guy has my MacBook, it spread to journalists, including this one, and the story soon began appearing on websites and blogs. ABC News said that when its reporter for Good Morning America called the Oakland Police Department to check whether a blog was a joke or just a promotion, the police reopened the case and soon attracted the suspects arrest. Quoting police, identified the suspect as ABC Muthanna Alde-Bashi, a taxi driver 27 years of age, of Alameda.
The team recovered and returned to Kaufman, who has not revealed details about himself or comment beyond their blogs and tweets.
The story is great publicity for both UK-based Hidden offering equipment protection plans ranging from $ 15 per year by a team of $ 395 for up to 100 computers for businesses, theft recovery with relevant products / Services include assistance. It is also good publicity for Apple, which demonstrates the loyalty of its users, and to Twitter.
But however much they can teach users to protect their relevant hardware products / services, history also could provide relevant products / services as a warning to beware of thieves tracking software relevant products and services.
Cat bag?
Consultant Rob Enderle of Enderle Group, said that while a professional reference products / services burglar can remove the computer's memory, knowing that there are programs like Lo-Jack that can track, "occasional thieves are usually not known for their long attention span or an avid interest in any technology publications or news programs. "
Cyber Security experts Sophos said Graham Cluely Most computers are stolen by opportunistic thieves rather tech-savvy criminals. However, if, for example, a new version of Mac OS X. Find My Mac software as standard, then the thieves may be more clued up and start off, if possible. "
Enderle said the low price of laptops has been a low priority for thieves because the secondary market is weak.
"What this means is professional thieves choose other things that are more valuable and easier to transport - jewelry, money, etc.," said Enderle. "Laptops are often stolen by opportunists, the same people who steal GPS devices. In addition, it is often the personal information (identity theft) is the most valuable part of the laptop anyway."
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