Save to my Dropbox as a way to have fun

More than once on Habré there were articles about ways to protect your smartphone from theft, or to find it, in case the theft occurred. Comments are usually full of skeptical, extensive and deep knowledge of what thieves primarily do with a stolen smartphone , leads to bad thoughts.

Nevertheless, even if the smartphone fails to return, then, sometimes, it is possible to have some fun.

Four months ago, a German with friends went to Ibiza to study with students in the reading rooms of libraries , and after drinking in the trash about ... he was not quite healthy, he lost all his belongings on the beach, including a smartphone.
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What was his surprise when after a few months, already in July, he found in the folder Camera upload of his Dropbox account, 15 new photos. It turned out that the installed Dropbox mobile application continues to work, which regularly downloads new photos from the stolen phone to this folder.

It was not possible to return the phone (yes, I think the hapless owner has a new one), but there was a reason to create a blog on a toggle switch full of cruel lulz called “The life of the person who stole my phone”. Photographs, meanwhile, continue to be sent, making the guy from Dubai, so successfully walking along the beach in Ibiza, the rising star of the Internet.