Macbook thief caught using Hidden app

Instal 'Undercover' on your Mac books its brilliant!!! We had an employee lose her macbook while in Dublin she left it in a taxi. The next day it was returned in a Taxi at a cost of ���12 (taxi fare)!!! Not only does the Mac report its current location (exactly) it takes snapshots when the mac is opened. After reporting the loss of the mac online, the macbook itself goes into 'Stolen mode' it will shoutout "I am a stolen mac book please return me to my owner" there will also be a message on the screen, which was entered during the 'undercover' setup, "call 0****** or return to ************. Bottom line, even after a call from a female claiming that she had bought the mac in a pub for ���300 we knew it was still in the hands of the original thief as we were getting snapshots all the time, so we refused to pay her and informed the lady that it was in the hands of the police. The mac was return the same day by taxi!! Now all our staff have this system installed on all mac's. I do not work for Mac or undercover, its just brilliant and it works. Not everyone has a password on their macs, this is a true story.

could do with getting that on my laptop

My son and I have a blackberry his was stolen from him a few weeks ago, he had installed Blackberry protect, it should have allowed us to track it down but never worked, my daughters works fine or so she says, she has only tested the loud ring you can make the phone do even when it is switched off. i am please this thief hasn't got away with it, if everything was protected in this way we would have less crime.

What is all this immigration thing about.This started out as a story about a stolen laptop and now some of you are on the "racist" tract.Can someone explain how we got to that?

I thought the article was about a thief not an immigrant!

simples chop the @#$% hands off, is he going to thieve with his feet?

Judging by the general balance of comments on this thread it would appear that the silent majority are finally showing how fed up they are with the absolutely brain-dead, knuckle-dragging, mouth-breathers who are so intent on spewing their racist ignorance on any article they can find on Yahoo, even though it has nothing to do with race or immigration. It is refreshing to see even moderatley articulate comments (no offence meant to anyone!) showing these fools up for what they are, the simplest of arguments is enough to counter their total lack of one. Please let no-one believe that these people represent Britain, they don't they. Last year we had elections in the UK and this scum got nowhere, they thought they were going to change the political landscape but the true Brits, shoved them off the political map. They just have big mouths, no brains and use the anonymity of the net to do what they can't do in public, yet others are simply attention seeking trolls. We've ignored them up to know because their level of sheer stupidity is not worth it, but there comes a moment when you just have to tell them to f@#k off! So three cheers for the intelligent, articulate majority here on this thread and in the UK in general, we are more powerful and we more in number.

brad ! I think if you look at your passport photo.we all look like criminals!..we I do!..

Where does it say "New Zealand" in the article (Adawi J post) - Believe it is OAKLAND and not Auckland. If my A Level Geography teacher is to be trusted that should place the offending little sh*te in the greater San Francisco area. UAS - the land of coast to coast immigrants.

Another Macbook's advertisement?

Always think in a positive way

Haha, brilliant. Crime doesn't pay (well, unless you're a banker or a politician...)

Immigration? Excuse my language but f-ck right off with that one. "Ooh this is why we don't like immigrants" no, you don't like immigrants because you're an uneducated little dweeb with the obvious intelligence of a plate of mashed potato and are convinced that everything that goes wrong in 'your' country can't possibly be your fault or anyone who is the same nationalities fault because you're oh so perfect and it must be those bad bad brown people doing everything from taking up jobs to stealing and raping.
They're immigrants, not vikings. You're a few centuries late with that one. Also technically somewhere in the line you will be descended from an immigrant too, now if we could all remove heads from bums, that would be great.

It makes me wonder how much of a country that we've this society into. As soon as we see anyone who is ;or appears not to be "British" we shout IMMIGRANTS GET OUT of OUR COUNTRY! Since when has the UK been "our country" it will always be the UK whether we are alive ;or dead and we do not OWN the country, we are TEMPORARY RESIDENTS LIVING IN IT. This guy who stole the thing was an "opportunitist thief" who thought he was lucky. Funny, some "British people" are opportunitist thieves and no one shouts "IMMIGRANT !. We could laugh at him and say "he got caught on CANDID CAMERA" for a laugh but why do we have to be so @#$% anit immigrant about it? We have our poeple living in USA, NZ, Australia ( where we first sent OUR CRIMINALS and yet no one said to our "British people" get out except Australia who called us "POMMS" but why the @#$% hatred. if we are not prepared to get off our back sides and look for work then let the "oppportunitist employee" rebuild his /her life. I am not PC but I do believe in equality. As for the thief well he can't deny this case when he goes to court. A CAMERA NEVER LIES !

Paul B, that is just plain ignorance!

i am posting my first comment on yahoo actully when it comes to talk about immigrants
it makes me feel angry and cross i have been living here for almost 12 years i have got a familay and 3kids who you can describe them as british born and citizen
and do u know what i never give any attention to be a citizen of this country coz i know wher i do belong for i did work hard in this country and i paid lots of money for thos hopless young people who dn't know how to feed them selfs
and i would remind all of these racist people could you just ask ur self for one moment wot makes most of these people to leave them countries
as i am PALESTINIAN i have been forced to leave my country by the ISRAELI
trying my best and i made all the efforts to get back and can't be send back
i am stuck here could you please ask you're british goverment why can't you send back home all these PALESTINIANS who is willing and dieing every day to get back to theier country
CAN YOU TELL ME WHY ?
I TELL YOU WHY BECUSE OF THE BRITISH PROMISE IN 1913 AND EVEN EARLIER THAN THAT THE MR BELFOUR GAVE OUR LAND TO THE JEWS TO SETTEL AND MAKE THERE PROMISED STATE
and you are coming to blame the immigrant
please READ HISTROY BEFORE MAKING NAY JUDGMENT FOR OTHERS
AND I WANT YOU TO REMEBER
NO HOME LIKE HOME

To all those fascist losers who are using the race card and turning this story into an anti-immigration agenda, let me remind you that New Zealand (where this incident took place) is a immigrant state. It is a settler state created by the British empire that sent its citizens to as settlers there to colonize. The settlers they sent were white. So before you go on about anti immigration and blame 'foreigners' on all crime, just remember that in New Zealand, where this incident took place, Caucasians are theoretically 'immigrants' too, so you might not want to insult immigrants.

I've never understood why people are always so quick to lose their tempers on these blogs so I've never commented before. Our problem is not immigrants but the fact that the population of the planet is 6 billions and will be 9 billions by 2030.

weasam is no point to get upset, those who put all the foreigner in same bascket are only ignorant, and this not their fault is the gov and media fault, they don't talk about the reality and most of people they don't know that that the arab contrubute a lot in the whelt and the ecommis of the country they still alot from arabes they work for them and with them, and still are, look how they are borbading on kadafi. why don't do that with yemen because yemen they don't have the petrol of libya and aslo untel know their is big community of british working in middle east.

and also the indian community has contribut also on bitish economies the english where in india for years not for holidays.

now they open the door to east european they are giving the best jobs, international monatry fund given a lot of money for development, and arabs well ..............we are the bad one, no w look for world cup how british are trying to get qatar out of it and who want them out of it is british.

surprised no one has labelled the thief as a islamic terrorist by the way he wears a beard on his face. What makes you think he is an immigrant? about 99% of americans have ancestors who were immigrants so I am not sure how all this racist nonsense actually even applies. Next thing you know you be classing american indians as immigrants also just on basis on the color of their skin. White people are by very nature such racist bigots.

Good idea, inform all those thief's in the world to check what applications are installed before using the laptop, Now I know if I ever nick a laptop I should uninstall all applications or do a clean installation before running the laptop.