“A designer who had his laptop stolen helped police by using a spy camera programme to take pictures and catch the thief red-handed,” Chris Parsons reports for The Mail Online.
“Joshua Kaufman thought he had lost his Apple MacBook when a thief broke into his apartment and stole the computer in March,” Parsons reports. “And with police giving his burglary report a low priority, he was resigned to never recovering the expensive laptop until he remembered the software he had installed on his MacBook.”
Parsons reports, “Using ‘Hidden’ software, he remotely took pictures of the thief using his stolen computer – before handing the evidence to police to make an arrest. Mr Kaufman captured the thief in a variety of bizarre locations – including using the stolen MacBook in bed, and in his car. ‘Hidden’ also provided him with location information, which police in Oakland, California, used to identify the thief as a taxi driver.”
Full article with many of the photos Kaufman snapped of the thief, here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Readers “librium” and “master cylinder” for the heads up.]