He presented this evidence to police but got no reply so posted pictures of the thief staring at the screen to his blog, where they went viral and were viewed by millions. When police told Kaufman they didn't have the resources to find his laptop, he spent four weeks gathering photos and location data using a software package called Hidden. He didn't know Kaufman had installed software that activated the machine's built-in camera.
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The guilty taxi driver stole a laptop belonging to Joshua Kaufman in Oakland, California, last month. The iPad was eventually handed in to local police. The former England rugby captain Will Carling traced his stolen iPad to a block of flats in Woking then traced its movement through the town. One of the most famous faces on the internet at the moment belongs to a taxi driver who has been exposed as a thief in a case of digital sleuthing that is helping aggrieved geeks and gadget owners to find their stolen goods.įrom Surrey to San Francisco, software is doing the job of police as vigilantes use tracking programmes more commonly seen in CIA thrillers to locate missing computers and phones.
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