How Not To Steal a Computer

I’m no experienced thief, nor do I aspire to be, but if I were to steal a slew of computers, I’m quite sure I’d be smart enough to wipe the hard-drives before turning them on. According to a story at BoingBoing, an unnamed individual (and perhaps others) stole a slew of iMac computers from an office in British Columbia. Little did he know, one of the machines was set up to auto-upload images to a Flickr account, making him one of the most popular people on the internet right now.

Note that this might not be the thief, but he could rather be one of the people who purchased one of the stolen computers. Even then, chances are if you purchase stolen merchandise… you know very well that it’s stolen. The big question is, does this guy even know that he is all over the internet?

Last week a number of computers were stolen from our office in Vancouver, BC. One of those computers was a shared iMac with Flickrbooth, an app that automatically uploads photo booth shots to our flickr account, installed on it. Just this morning a friend called to tell us that there are photos of whoever has the computer now in our flickr stream! Obviously the guy didn’t know he was uploading images of himself and his awesome tattoos.

Source: Boing Boing