Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!newsfeed.hal-mli.net!feeder1.hal-mli.net!border3.nntp.dca.giganews.com!Xl.tags.giganews.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!local2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.supernews.com!news.supernews.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 03 Jun 2011 18:45:42 -0500 User-Agent: Microsoft-Entourage/11.3.6.070618 Date: Fri, 03 Jun 2011 18:45:41 -0500 Subject: Re: how? From: George Kerby Newsgroups: comp.programming,comp.sys.mac.misc,comp.sys.mac.system,alt.hacker Message-ID: Thread-Topic: how? Thread-Index: AcwiSFjRl58MKo47EeCv1QAbY5UKYw== References: <00addd67-75e8-4a93-85ed-d6aadba6dae2@q12g2000prb.googlegroups.com> <4de96f33$0$89993$c30e37c6@exi-reader.telstra.net> Mime-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Lines: 28 X-Trace: sv3-NDea+NKS3844Hl7eR5uCb527tm8iXuBlUZ5yWUU+mdT4wKUk91XA3OC4TjDLCOKPII5lHBkTPYnMLgq!kYp73ekMvRaZvvJwe/pWw9dA+ydvxLRdhuAjsH5xBjHljhOP7oIc3yIrlKqP+8oxJN5jS4s9rLpx!rA== X-Complaints-To: www.supernews.com/docs/abuse.html X-DMCA-Complaints-To: www.supernews.com/docs/dmca.html X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.40 X-Original-Bytes: 1986 Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.programming:380 comp.sys.mac.misc:288 comp.sys.mac.system:3717 On 6/3/11 6:32 PM, in article 4de96f33$0$89993$c30e37c6@exi-reader.telstra.net, "robin" wrote: > "RichD" wrote in message > news:00addd67-75e8-4a93-85ed-d6aadba6dae2@q12g2000prb.googlegroups.com... > | There was a recent news item, an Apple Mac was > | stolen. He had anti-theft software installed, which > | snapped pictures at regular intervals through the webcam. > | > | Then it said he activated the program remotely, > | to send him the pictures, and the thief was eventually > | caught. > | > | My question is, how the heck did he accomplish this > | 'remote control'? Like, he sent a virus to the machine, > | or what? > > Why? Do you have a stolen Mac? > > LOL! Good one!