If there’s anything I’ve learned about Apple, in all these years of reading, and just recently, writing about them, it’s that you don’t mess with them. Ever. That’s a lesson a lot of would-be Apple product burglars would do good in learning, lest they want to be the ones pictured and talked about in this article here. The two men you see here are the burglars that we reported about previously, responsible for stealing flat-screen TVs, computer games, iPods, DVDs, a box of liquor and even a set of car rims from an apartment shared by three roommates. The one on top is Edmon Shahikian, while the one on the bottom is Ian Frias. They were apprehended shortly after the owner of one of their stolen wares, a Mac laptop, used the Back To My Mac feature to photograph them and show their photos to the police. I wonder when anyone will be able to do that with their Windows lappies.
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You can do it on a PC too, its called Remote Desktop.
@Kyle Yes, I knew that. I meant with stolen Windows laptops. Thanks for your input!
"Back to my Mac" seems to be a website that your computer connects to and updates its current IP address and lets you remote in to.
Anyone can go to http://www.dyndns.org and get a dynamic host, install client on their windows/linux machine. Enable remote desktop (or better yet, a webcam software that is always running), and connect via the dynamic host.
This is no great feature in Mac.. If it was stolen by retards like the mac was, still a high probability of getting it back.
Goes to show that with high tech gadgets, you better know what it does and how to use it before you steal it. So many products have ways of being tracked and monitored now that a stupid thief (like these two) is asking to be caught.
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