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Crime Fighter of the Day Last Month: Don’t Mess With Apple Users
A New York woman solved a burglary crime on her own using mad computer skills. She and two roommates had their White Plains apartment burglarized in April. It sounds like they had a fun apartment. The thieves took “two laptops, two flat-screen televisions, two iPods, gaming consoles, DVDs and computer games.”
One of the victims took the case into her own hands in May. From the Journal News:
On Tuesday, police said, one of the victims, who works at The Apple Store in The Westchester mall, received a call from a friend asking her if she was online. The victim said no, and was told by the friend that his computer showed her as being logged onto the Internet.At that point, police said, the victim signed onto another computer and used the “Back to My Mac” program to determine that her stolen MacIntosh laptop indeed was signed onto the Web and that someone was using it to shop online. She then activated the stolen computer’s camera, allowing her to “see” what was in front of the laptop… [S]he was able to photograph a man, Shahikian, sitting in front of her stolen laptop…
The computer-savvy victim contacted police, gave them the tell-tale photos, and the arrests were made a short time later.
In the continuing debate over Apple or PC users being cooler, that’s a point for Apple. Perhaps Apple can use this case as inspiration for its next round of “Mac guy” vs “PC guy” commercials, with PC guy spending hours filling out police paperwork while Mac guy hunts down the burglars.
