Some interesting stories about lost laptops, cameras, and cameras



    Nowadays, the number of useful (and not so) functions of various kinds of gadgets is so diverse that the owner of the device does not always know about all these functions. However, sometimes they prove to be very useful - even if the owner did not know about them, or did not use them. Sometimes all this helps to recover a lost or stolen phone / laptop. This mini-review has collected four such cases. Some of the stories had already slipped on Habré, but it does not hinder to recall these curious, sometimes, situations.

    iCloud and stolen iPhone



    Apple's stolen products again appear in the case. But it so happened that the iCloud service allows you to automatically upload photos received by phone to your personal storage, Photo Stream. You can access these photos from anywhere, most importantly, the Internet should be.

    The iPhone was stolen from the owner, but the thief did not know that iCloud was activated on the device. So the thief took pictures of himself, his girlfriend and other people (as it turned out, with Disney Cruise), and the photos appeared on the phone owner’s Photo Stream. When the girl whose phone was stolen turned to Disney Cruise management and the phone returned to the victim. Ami Stuart

    Android Phone from Taxi and Google+



    Forgot (or Lost) her Android Smartphone in Taxi. Immediately after the discovery of the loss, she turned to the taxi service management. Those who questioned the driver who was transporting the girl received an answer that the driver did not see any phone.



    However, after some time, photos explicitly made by the new "owner" began to appear on the Google+ account of the owner of the lost device. In some photos, the same taxi driver was clearly visible, who said that he could not find the phone. The girl turned to the management of the company, and the driver had to return the device.

    Photos from a drowned camera



    In August 2010, a British Columbian fireman dropped his camera into Deep Bay, near Vancouver. It is clear that the owner of the camera said goodbye to her. But a year later, naturalist and photographer Marcus Thompson found this camera during another diving. He lifted the camera from the bottom, took out an SD card, and was able to recover about 50 photographs.

    Thompson posted some photos on Google+, and a few hours later the owner of the camera was found. It is clear that the device was no longer subject to recovery, but the former owner did not count on it, he was very glad about the family photos taken at the resort, which was believed to be lost.

    MacBook and Hidden



    Joshua Kaufman never thought that he would ever use the Hidden app. But when his laptop was stolen, he remotely launched this program, activated the necessary functions, and began to take pictures from the camera while the laptop was working. A thief appeared in many photos, and he was able to easily calculate it using GPS tracking. For some reason, it took the police two whole months to detain the offender, but in the end, the attacker was caught and the laptop returned to the owner.

    In general, all the stories mentioned had a happy ending, but still it is worth remembering that now a smartphone or laptop is more than just a computing device. Most of us have a lot of data on such devices, from personal photos to logins and passwords to various services and resources. So even a short-term loss of a device can be expensive, both literally and figuratively.

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