iPad thieves are idiots, send victim pictures of themselves
Dan Seitz You know, you’d think by now crooks would have gotten the message. Not a week goes by without some report of some jerk making off with a guy’s iPhone, only to be tracked down by his friends or the cops, arrested, and carted off to jail. It’s not hard to track something constantly connected to the Internet and designed to ping its location to a server, you dumbasses.
Still, even by idiot thief standards, this is a new low: the morons who stole Ken McLellan’s iPad are sending him pictures of themselves. Accidentally, to boot.
Here’s what’s happening: the iPad has a feature called Photo Sharing. If you enable it, it automatically streams any photos taken on your iPad to your other Apple devices. And, yes, the thieves seem to be completely unaware of the fact that they are sending McLellan their picture.
So, take a good look:
If you know these people, let the Dallas police know. If you don’t, good for you! You’re not friends with people who will be featured on “America’s Dumbest Criminals”!
Photo Stream Is Helping a Man Find His Stolen iPad [TUAW]
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