Six months later after receiving almost 50 reports I was told that I COULD actually report a crime so passed on all the info to the police here. A month later they were able to get pretty much back from the taxi driver.
The whole thing seems unreal, but I am slowly internalizing everything. I can't stop telling people about Prey and how everyone needs to install it now! Don't wait! It would have been impossible to recover my computer without it, seriously. Thank you so much!
"I started to know about the guy who bought my laptop. I was able to see his face, know his name, his address, his ID number, etc. Everything thanks to Prey."
Let me tell you, driving around in a bad ass police truck through Tijuana felt pretty awesome.
You may have heard that a new, fully rewritten and awesome desktop client is in the works, and you heard right. But that doesn’t mean the existing one will disappear overnight. We plan to keep on supporting it until the new one is solid as Frodo’s mithril armor, and this is a good way to [...]
So get this... 10 mins after I reported the computer as missing, I get an email saying that they have details of the thief. I checked my email and it's some random guy with glasses on and he was in Sacramento with my laptop.
I relayed a picture of the user, and all other info on the Prey report to the Sheriff's deputy. They were able to identify the user by working with the Adult Parole Authority's picture database.
There is absolutely NO EXCUSE FOR NOT INSTALLING PREY! It got me my MacBook back and I am very thankful for that!
The whole internet was affected by a major security vulnerability, known as Heartbleed. It was disclosed yesterday, so you might already know about the bug, which allows anyone on the Internet to read the memory of the systems protected by the vulnerable versions of the OpenSSL software, the technology used to encrypt most of the internet, [...]
"I woke up on the street after a two-hour blackout without anything at all. My guess is I had been roofied or something similar, because I hadn't been drinking a lot at all. My bag, with a Macbook Air, my passport, 600 dollars worth of cash, and a number of important papers, was gone."
