Software Catches 4-MacBook Thief with iSight

Earlier this year, a bunch of people wrote automatic scripts that video-recorded people using Macs they weren’t supposed to. A commercial version of such programs (combined with network logging and screenshots), Undercover, was recently used to bust a crook who took 4 brand new MacBooks from an elementary school in April. At least according to software-maker Orbicule:

Fortunately, it did not take the thief long to come online as he had no idea that the computers he stole were running Undercover. Within 9 hours of the computers being stolen, our recovery center was sending Mr. Kenneth Burman the screen shots of the web sites and programmes a totally clueless thief was going through as well as the snapshots of the thief himself. Later, Mr. Kenneth Burman delivered this information to the local police office. Real samples of the screenshots and iSight pictures taken by Undercover can be seen below. Some details are blurred in order to protect everyone’s privacy.

Although we have all been exposed to the MacBook thief’s moustache, which is almost too perfect to believe.

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