$100 a year? .Mac is worth $5000!
This is such a cool story it’s worth repeating here. Two dumbass dudes burgled $5000 worth of laptops, ipods, game consoles, and other electronics from the White Plains apartment of a woman who works at an Apple Store and who has a .Mac account. Lucky her, too bad for them. When a co-worker at the store noticed that it appeared that she was online with her MacBook (but wasn’t), she went logged on to another Mac at the store, launched the “Back to My Mac” feature of .Mac, which allows remote access to a second Mac, and was able to activate the built-in camera on her MacBook remotely. At first there was just an empty chair there, but moments later one of the dumbass burglars (who ended up being a friend of a friend of the victim) sat down and she was able to snap a photo of him and send it to the police. Shortly thereafter arrests were made. All thanks to a smart Mac users, a MacBook with a built-in camera, and a .Mac account. I’d like to see a PC user pull that one off — oh wait, who’d bother to steal a PC laptop anyway….?