Stolen Mac helps nab burglary suspects
A remote-desktop access feature found in some Macintoshes is being credited with leading police to two suspects in the burglary of an apartment in New York.

In addition to flat-screen TVs, iPods, and DVDs, the thieves made off with two laptops, one of which belonged to Kait Duplaga, an Apple store employee, according to a report in The New York Times on Saturday.
While police in White Plains, N.Y., were coming up empty with their investigation, Duplaga learned that her computer was being used on the Internet, and she turned on the Back to My Mac feature installed on her Mac from another Mac, according to the report.
The feature allowed Duplaga to see immediately how the computer was being used at the time, as well as operate it remotely. Recalling that she had a camera installed on the computer, the fast-thinking Duplaga snapped images of one of the burglary suspects before he realized what was happening, according to the Times. Duplaga showed the image to friends, who recognized the suspect as someone who attended a party at the apartment.
The photo led police to arrest two suspects on Wednesday and recover nearly all the stolen property.
"It doesn't get much better than their bringing us a picture of the guy actually using the stolen property," Daniel Jackson, the deputy commissioner of public safety in White Plains, told the newspaper. "It certainly made our job easier."
The Back to My Mac feature, which runs on Leopard-based Macintoshes, requires a $99 subscription to the .Mac online service.
Steven Musil is the night news editor at CNET News. E-mail Steven.
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The software utilizes the built in iSight camera to capture video of thieves...without having to pay for the $99 a year .Mac account.
Please. Windows XP has always had remote desktop, which can easily do the same thing. Furthermore, it doesn't cost an extra $99.
Steve Jobs... the REAL Big Brother?
PS: Apple lovers.. boring... Apple haters... pathetic.
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No, having to log in doesn't stop the people running the Back to my Mac from monitoring you.
If this was a MS or Google program, there would be a lot of complaints about it.
General Motors already DOES have something similar to that. When a GM car is stolen, the police can bring the car to a halt through OnStar. OnStar can also inform the police where the car is located.
How do you know the telephone company is not listening to you even when your land/cell phone is hung up?
lol
Clearly, Steve Jobs founded Apple only to satiate his voyeuristic addiction.
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by benjaminstraight
July 17, 2008 3:31 AM PDT
- Where is the CSI episode for this?
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