Camera thieves caught on camera (thanks to an Eye-Fi SD card)

[Deviant Ollam]

if you don't know what an Eye-Fi card is... check it out, they're pretty badass.

Camera Thieves Caught on Camera

A woman who had her camera stolen got a close-up of the thieves when photos they took of themselves were automatically uploaded to her computer. ... Equipped with a special memory card with wireless Internet capability, DeLauzon's camera had not only automatically sent her holiday pictures to her computer, but also uploaded photos of the miscreants who swiped her equipment bag after she accidentally left it behind at a restaurant.

[Thorn]

Re: Camera thieves caught on camera (thanks to an Eye-Fi SD card)

if you don't know what an Eye-Fi card is... check it out, they're pretty badass.

Camera Thieves Caught on Camera

Usually, it's not my policy to blame any victim, but this woman should have LOSER branded on her forehead. Not only did she walk out of a restaurant leaving behind a bag with several hundred dollars worth of camera equipment, but she obviously leaves her WLAN in a factory default, unencrypted state. The thieves may deserve to get tossed in jail, but she deserves to have her ass kicked until she smartens up.

[Deviant Ollam]

Re: Camera thieves caught on camera (thanks to an Eye-Fi SD card)

The Global Hotspot we all call Linksys strikes again. (i'm channeling Beelte there a bit, hah)

[y011]

Re: Camera thieves caught on camera (thanks to an Eye-Fi SD card)

This is reminiscent of the Apple Store employee who recovered her notebook thanks to having (apparently) no login password and iChat launching on startup and logging in. And I suspect happy trusty configuration for open wireless networks or something.

That story is apparently real and its moral is if you have no security you'll get your notebook back.

http://gizmodo.com/389115/stolen-mac...o-bust-thieves

So when I read the eye-fi story about 2 months later after seeing a heap of press releases for the eye-fi in the month in the middle in physical security mags my first thought on it is calling 'bullshit' and that this is a marketing story plant.

[barry99705]

Re: Camera thieves caught on camera (thanks to an Eye-Fi SD card)

This is reminiscent of the Apple Store employee who recovered her notebook thanks to having (apparently) no login password and iChat launching on startup and logging in. And I suspect happy trusty configuration for open wireless networks or something.

That story is apparently real and its moral is if you have no security you'll get your notebook back.

http://gizmodo.com/389115/stolen-mac...o-bust-thieves

So when I read the eye-fi story about 2 months later after seeing a heap of press releases for the eye-fi in the month in the middle in physical security mags my first thought on it is calling 'bullshit' and that this is a marketing story plant.

Back to my mac that was running on her computer. It's a pretty slick little bit of software that lest you remote desktop your mac over the internet. It logs into the .mac server and will accept connections from any mac that you log into .mac with. She did have ichat running on the computer, which is how she was told about it from a friend. So she remoted the computer and turned on the camera. Called the cops, gave them the info and got her laptop back. The laptop was stolen from her apartment, along with another laptop and flat screen tv.

Here's the unGizmodo'd story.
http://www.lohud.com/apps/pbcs.dll/a...=2008805090392

[valanx]

Re: Camera thieves caught on camera (thanks to an Eye-Fi SD card)

Back to my mac about saturated one of our network connections when the engineers started up their new macs without checking to see what all was enabled by default. Apparently ooh shiny syndrome set on earlier than any form of common sense.

[barry99705]

Re: Camera thieves caught on camera (thanks to an Eye-Fi SD card)

Back to my mac about saturated one of our network connections when the engineers started up their new macs without checking to see what all was enabled by default. Apparently ooh shiny syndrome set on earlier than any form of common sense.

That's awesome. We had a few people run it when I was still in AK. Didn't seem to have any problems with the network. Though we throttle every one's connection anyway, so that may have been part of it. Joe average gets 56k to the internet, computer and network techs got 2Mb to the internet. Anything internal was as fast as your connection allowed. So that was either 10, 100 or 1000Mb. The few of us that pushed around disk images all the time had gigabit at the desktop. Was nice, since some of our Mac images were still 20Gb compressed. Though that was only for a few machines, most was around 10Gb or so.