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If so, great feature.

Great story, too. I will be sharing this with others. Perhaps my wife's Macbook is about to get a .mac subscription.]]>May 11th 2008 11:03AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/11/stolen-laptop-recovered-with-back-to-my-mac/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/11/stolen-laptop-recovered-with-back-to-my-mac/May 11th 2008 11:04AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/11/stolen-laptop-recovered-with-back-to-my-mac/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/11/stolen-laptop-recovered-with-back-to-my-mac/
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- She works at an Apple store, realizes how to use a remote desktop but she didn't set a password? (unless they stole the computer in a running state and didn't reboot it since)
- why didn't they reformat the computer immediately?]]>May 11th 2008 1:23PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/11/stolen-laptop-recovered-with-back-to-my-mac/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/11/stolen-laptop-recovered-with-back-to-my-mac/May 11th 2008 7:29PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/11/stolen-laptop-recovered-with-back-to-my-mac/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/11/stolen-laptop-recovered-with-back-to-my-mac/May 11th 2008 11:09PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/11/stolen-laptop-recovered-with-back-to-my-mac/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/11/stolen-laptop-recovered-with-back-to-my-mac/
Will she marry me?]]>May 11th 2008 10:58AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/11/stolen-laptop-recovered-with-back-to-my-mac/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/11/stolen-laptop-recovered-with-back-to-my-mac/May 11th 2008 11:05AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/11/stolen-laptop-recovered-with-back-to-my-mac/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/11/stolen-laptop-recovered-with-back-to-my-mac/
*cough* VNC *cough*]]>May 11th 2008 10:59AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/11/stolen-laptop-recovered-with-back-to-my-mac/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/11/stolen-laptop-recovered-with-back-to-my-mac/May 11th 2008 11:03AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/11/stolen-laptop-recovered-with-back-to-my-mac/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/11/stolen-laptop-recovered-with-back-to-my-mac/May 11th 2008 11:03AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/11/stolen-laptop-recovered-with-back-to-my-mac/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/11/stolen-laptop-recovered-with-back-to-my-mac/All you need to do is know your user name & password. If you have screen sharing turned on you just have to send a request to the computer & bam! your in. If the thieves were using the computer @ the time, they were probably like WTF! Anyways yeah this is just OS X' built in *cough* VNC *cough* ]]>May 11th 2008 11:06AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/11/stolen-laptop-recovered-with-back-to-my-mac/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/11/stolen-laptop-recovered-with-back-to-my-mac/May 11th 2008 11:06AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/11/stolen-laptop-recovered-with-back-to-my-mac/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/11/stolen-laptop-recovered-with-back-to-my-mac/"*Requirements for using Back to My Mac
* A .Mac subscription (Basic Membership or .Mac Family Pack required)

http://www.apple.com/dotmac/backtomymac.html


@Tom Oliveri...
Nope, perfectly possible. If I were to set up VNC on a laptop I would set it up with a domain and dyndns (I always use afraid.org) so I wouldn't have to remember an IP. When the laptop was connected to a different network the dyndns client would update the IP associated with the domain and thus I would be able to access the laptop via VNC through the domain.


God, just because I said something remotely intelligent. You can't honestly say you would pay that subscription?]]>May 11th 2008 11:31AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/11/stolen-laptop-recovered-with-back-to-my-mac/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/11/stolen-laptop-recovered-with-back-to-my-mac/
dyndns, or easier logmein, free of charge , you login to their website and voila.]]>May 11th 2008 11:47AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/11/stolen-laptop-recovered-with-back-to-my-mac/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/11/stolen-laptop-recovered-with-back-to-my-mac/May 11th 2008 11:48AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/11/stolen-laptop-recovered-with-back-to-my-mac/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/11/stolen-laptop-recovered-with-back-to-my-mac/
And for $69 it's well worth it IMO. It does a lot more than just what's being discussed here.]]>May 11th 2008 11:52AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/11/stolen-laptop-recovered-with-back-to-my-mac/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/11/stolen-laptop-recovered-with-back-to-my-mac/May 11th 2008 12:46PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/11/stolen-laptop-recovered-with-back-to-my-mac/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/11/stolen-laptop-recovered-with-back-to-my-mac/May 11th 2008 1:09PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/11/stolen-laptop-recovered-with-back-to-my-mac/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/11/stolen-laptop-recovered-with-back-to-my-mac/Website Hosting
IMAP Mail
10Gb Storage
Web Gallery
Sync (Contacts, Calenders backup)
Seamless Integration with iLife + iWork products


Does Hamachi + VNC do all this as well?]]>May 11th 2008 1:48PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/11/stolen-laptop-recovered-with-back-to-my-mac/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/11/stolen-laptop-recovered-with-back-to-my-mac/
Mac OS X has a built in VNC server than can be used without .Mac.]]>Jun 3rd 2008 3:50AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/11/stolen-laptop-recovered-with-back-to-my-mac/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/11/stolen-laptop-recovered-with-back-to-my-mac/May 11th 2008 2:13PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/11/stolen-laptop-recovered-with-back-to-my-mac/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/11/stolen-laptop-recovered-with-back-to-my-mac/
That doesn't matter. We aren't talking about that stuff.

Nice failure at logic.]]>May 11th 2008 4:06PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/11/stolen-laptop-recovered-with-back-to-my-mac/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/11/stolen-laptop-recovered-with-back-to-my-mac/
There are free or low cost ways to to what .Mac does, but for a lot of people $70 a year is perfectly reasonable and .Mac makes it really easy.]]>May 11th 2008 4:31PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/11/stolen-laptop-recovered-with-back-to-my-mac/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/11/stolen-laptop-recovered-with-back-to-my-mac/Google alone does a lot of that for free:
Website Hosting (googlepages)
IMAP Mail (GMail)
Web Gallery (Picasa)

G-Drive never materialized though, right?
I suppose you could run your own server, maybe even use Hamachi. But you need to install that, and AFAIK you can't without admin privileges. And they charge you $40 if you want to run it as a service or have a network with more than 16 clients.
Anyone know of something like Hamachi, also with a free option, that I can run from a USB drive anywhere? Port forwarding like SSH would be fine, but with UDP encapsulation and NAT traversal.]]>May 11th 2008 11:23PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/11/stolen-laptop-recovered-with-back-to-my-mac/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/11/stolen-laptop-recovered-with-back-to-my-mac/No woman gets cops to do their job fast, regardless of the evidence presented, unless she is smoking hot.

Raheen, she likely had some form of security/cam software installed that uploaded her webcam to a website.... maybe she was a stripper lol]]>May 11th 2008 11:02AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/11/stolen-laptop-recovered-with-back-to-my-mac/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/11/stolen-laptop-recovered-with-back-to-my-mac/May 18th 2008 12:33PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/11/stolen-laptop-recovered-with-back-to-my-mac/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/11/stolen-laptop-recovered-with-back-to-my-mac/this was posted on giz like a week ago]]>May 11th 2008 11:05AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/11/stolen-laptop-recovered-with-back-to-my-mac/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/11/stolen-laptop-recovered-with-back-to-my-mac/May 11th 2008 11:27AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/11/stolen-laptop-recovered-with-back-to-my-mac/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/11/stolen-laptop-recovered-with-back-to-my-mac/May 11th 2008 12:26PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/11/stolen-laptop-recovered-with-back-to-my-mac/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/11/stolen-laptop-recovered-with-back-to-my-mac/May 11th 2008 12:30PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/11/stolen-laptop-recovered-with-back-to-my-mac/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/11/stolen-laptop-recovered-with-back-to-my-mac/May 11th 2008 5:35PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/11/stolen-laptop-recovered-with-back-to-my-mac/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/11/stolen-laptop-recovered-with-back-to-my-mac/May 11th 2008 8:24PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/11/stolen-laptop-recovered-with-back-to-my-mac/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/11/stolen-laptop-recovered-with-back-to-my-mac/May 12th 2008 1:24PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/11/stolen-laptop-recovered-with-back-to-my-mac/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/11/stolen-laptop-recovered-with-back-to-my-mac/Who fuckin CARES where/when you saw this!!?]]>May 12th 2008 1:07PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/11/stolen-laptop-recovered-with-back-to-my-mac/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/11/stolen-laptop-recovered-with-back-to-my-mac/May 11th 2008 11:05AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/11/stolen-laptop-recovered-with-back-to-my-mac/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/11/stolen-laptop-recovered-with-back-to-my-mac/May 11th 2008 11:08AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/11/stolen-laptop-recovered-with-back-to-my-mac/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/11/stolen-laptop-recovered-with-back-to-my-mac/May 11th 2008 11:29AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/11/stolen-laptop-recovered-with-back-to-my-mac/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/11/stolen-laptop-recovered-with-back-to-my-mac/May 11th 2008 11:38AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/11/stolen-laptop-recovered-with-back-to-my-mac/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/11/stolen-laptop-recovered-with-back-to-my-mac/]]>May 11th 2008 11:52AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/11/stolen-laptop-recovered-with-back-to-my-mac/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/11/stolen-laptop-recovered-with-back-to-my-mac/http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/10/nyregion/10laptop.html]]>May 11th 2008 12:32PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/11/stolen-laptop-recovered-with-back-to-my-mac/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/11/stolen-laptop-recovered-with-back-to-my-mac/
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See, this goes to show that webcams are quite useful. Most people just say webcams are only good for pr0n exchange, those goes to show that hey, they're good for security, too.

Moral of the story: DON'T STEAL A LAPTOP FROM A COMPUTER SAVVY PERSON....dumbasses.]]>May 11th 2008 5:28PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/11/stolen-laptop-recovered-with-back-to-my-mac/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/11/stolen-laptop-recovered-with-back-to-my-mac/May 11th 2008 11:09AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/11/stolen-laptop-recovered-with-back-to-my-mac/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/11/stolen-laptop-recovered-with-back-to-my-mac/May 11th 2008 11:19AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/11/stolen-laptop-recovered-with-back-to-my-mac/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/11/stolen-laptop-recovered-with-back-to-my-mac/May 11th 2008 12:12PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/11/stolen-laptop-recovered-with-back-to-my-mac/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/11/stolen-laptop-recovered-with-back-to-my-mac/May 11th 2008 1:36PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/11/stolen-laptop-recovered-with-back-to-my-mac/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/11/stolen-laptop-recovered-with-back-to-my-mac/May 11th 2008 1:50PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/11/stolen-laptop-recovered-with-back-to-my-mac/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/11/stolen-laptop-recovered-with-back-to-my-mac/May 11th 2008 6:28PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/11/stolen-laptop-recovered-with-back-to-my-mac/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/11/stolen-laptop-recovered-with-back-to-my-mac/May 11th 2008 11:01PM