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28/8/2005

How to catch a mobile phone thief

Filed under: Hackers, Mobiles — Tim Yang @ 8:10 pm

This is an interesting post on a forum about how someone had his mobile phone stolen and the funny series of events that led to the capture of the thief. The thief had used the camera on the phone to take pictures of himself, his girlfriend and a amateur sex video. Unfortunately for the thief, the owner had set up an automatic posting routine on the phone. Whenever a photo was sent from the phone, it saved a copy on his Sprint website. So he got an update of all the thief’s activities.

2 Comments »

  1. That’s funny! In Canada, and probably elsewhere, they have a system called Baitcars where they have cameras and audio installed in cars left in high car theft areas. There’s lots of really funny video of people stealing cars then getting nabbed by the police.

    Comment by Mitch — 29/8/2005 @ 5:00 am

  2. I wish they did that everywhere. That would be a more popular (and more useful) TV show than the Idol and Big Brother crap we get these days.

    Comment by Tim — 1/9/2005 @ 1:39 pm

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