A laptop and a thief stolen during the London riots were found thanks to a tracking program

Not so long ago, I published the news that the owner of the laptop could find it thanks to the installed program for tracking Hidden (we are talking about the MacBook). This time, the free program Prey for the same MacBook distinguished itself. So, the other day, a network security expert named Greg Martin returned to his London apartment and found that the marauders had visited the apartment and his MacBook was stolen. Interestingly, Greg used to work for the FBI, NASA, and is an expert on network security. But of course, the thief did not know.

In general, Greg showed no special professional skills when searching for a laptop. He set up Prey a couple of months ago; this is a free software that allows you to track a laptop or phone (in the case of a mobile application) and helps you find your devices in case of loss or theft.
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For two days the laptop was out of touch, apparently, the attacker simply did not turn it on. And so, when Greg left for Luxembourg, on a business trip, he received a long-awaited e-mail message, with the information that the laptop was turned on. After that, the location of the laptop could be detected by a small child: the program allowed you to see all the resources visited by the thief, saved his account data from Facebook and other resources, plus you could see the thief himself.

Greg, on the basis of the data obtained, was able to establish the location of the thief, his name, surname and all other personal data. All this was sent to the police, after which the thief was detained. The thief was the 18-year-old Soheil Khalilfar. The laptop is returned to the owner.

As you can see, such software can be really useful - it’s probably worth installing such programs on laptops and mobile devices. Fortunately, such software is often free.

Via mashable