–Anti-Theft Software Tracks Thief, Leads to Drug Bust
(23 January 2007)
A laptop computer taken along with other items in a Des Moines,
Iowa-area burglary was equipped with software that calls home when the computer is next plugged in. "Police used Internet access records from a separate company" that led them to a home where they not only apprehended a man suspected in the theft, but also discovered a drug operation.
http://desmoinesregister.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070123/NEWS01/701230411/-1/BUSINESS04
http://www.umass.edu/chronicle/archives/02/11-15/arrest12.htm]
(((It's rare to find a guy whose only character flaw is swiping bugged laptops. Of course he's into drugs, weapons...
probably beats up his girlfriend and speeds on his motorcycle, too. Nowadays cops could probably salt a city with pre-jarked laptops and mop up the entire criminal element post-haste.)))
