Stolen Laptop Sends Mystery Pictures from Iran

Laptops, sadly, get stolen every day (at a rate of one every 53 seconds, according to an oft-quoted Gartner study). But not all of those bereft owners get to see the thieves using their machine from 3,000 miles away. Fewer still make a Tumblr out of the situation.

That's apparently what happened to Dom Deltorto, a London-based animator who had his Macbook Pro taken from his flat on February 4. Deltoro had installed Hidden App, a $15 piece of Mac software that lets you track a stolen machine the next time it connects to the Internet. It can send you surreptitious pictures of its new owners from the built-in camera, and let you take screengrabs of what they're doing on the desktop. Read more...