Sweet. Chalk one up to the Stupid Criminal archive

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May 10, 20081 min

This is great. Three roomates were burglerized. Over $5,000 worth of electronics were stolen from their apartment. One of the vicitims, who happens to work in an Apple store, recieves a call from a friend telling her it looks like she is on-line. The woman uses a remote access program for the Mac to log in to her computer and turn on the webcam. She snaps pictures of the thieves and gives them to the police who nab them!

I love it. This story ranks right up there with the woman who recovered the stolen thumb drive with her master’s thesis on it.

Data Center

by Richard Stiennon

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Richard Stiennon is chief research analyst at IT-Harvest, the firm he founded in 2005 to cover the 1,600 vendors that make up the IT security industry. He is the author of Surviving Cyberwar (Government Institutes, 2010) and There Will Be Cyberwar: How the Move to Network-Centric Warfighting Set the Stage for Cyberwar. He is a member of the advisory board at the Information Governance Initiative and principal of TrueBit Cyber Partners. He also serves on the R2-TAC, the technical advisory committee for the Responsible Recycling standard for e-waste.

Stiennon was chief marketing officer for Fortinet Inc. and vice president of threat research at Webroot Software. Prior to that, he was vice president of research at Gartner Inc. He has a B.S. in aerospace engineering and an M.A. in war in the modern world from King’s College, London.

The opinions expressed in this blog are those of Richard Stiennon and do not necessarily represent those of IDG Communications Inc. or its parent, subsidiary or affiliated companies.

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