Eye-Fi helps woman catch the thieves who stole her camera

Some technology is unwittingly making it possible for people to recover their lost or stolen gizmos. Last month, one Apple employee recovered her stolen laptop thanks to some ingenuity, and a program called "Back to My Mac" that used her Mac's built-in web camera to photograph the thieves. This month, a similar story covered by Reuters, illustrates how one very clever memory card helped a family recover their lost digital cameras.

Alison DeLauzon lost two digital cameras full of snapshots and videos of her son. She probably had given up all hope of recovering them, when the unexpected happened: one of the cameras sent pictures of the thieves to her computer.

This was possible thanks to her Eye-Fi memory card, which has wireless capabilities that uploads photos to the Web once it detects a Wi-Fi signal. The thieves were obviously unaware of such technology, so when they passed by an unsecured Wi-Fi network, all the pictures in the camera, including their own, were automatically sent to DeLauzon's account. To make a story short, Ms. DeLauzon recognized the thieves, who worked at a restaurant where she had dined, and was able to recover her camera equipment.

Ahhh, when are thieves going to learn? It's great to hear stories like this one, isn't it? 

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