images uploaded from a stolen mobile

yossarin

I work for a mobile phone replication software company.
we just got this in this morning:
http://www.practicalist.com/archives/000183.html

The phone owner had set our software to automatically upload all photos taken by his phone to his flickr account. His phone got stolen but the software is still running. You can see photos of the thiefs car and family.

Gordon

Please tell me this is true, you'll break my heart if it's not.

Hobbes

Its certainly not the first time it happened.

Oriel

Cool.

Donegal Lass

thats my cousin!!:D

projectmayhem

that is fantastic. my brothers phone was robbed a few weeks ago, would have been nice to see the knackers who took it

Rhyme

The guy seems pretty light-hearted about it... quite nice. Also, the thief has a quality car.

cornbb

Thats really sweet. I hope they catch the dude.

Stephen

Rhyme wrote:

The guy seems pretty light-hearted about it... quite nice. Also, the thief has a quality car.

Assuming its actually his car and he didn't just take a photo of it because he thought it looked cool

Wonder if the plates are traceable?

Zedd

That guy took it really well?!

Heres the other way to go about it:

http://www.evanwashere.com/StolenSidekick/

godtabh

Zedd wrote:

That guy took it really well?!

Heres the other way to go about it:

http://www.evanwashere.com/StolenSidekick/

Thatsd classic! All the time an effort that was spent on that was unreal. Next time I lose my phone in a taxi I'll have to do that!

Ruu_Old

Zedd wrote:

That guy took it really well?!

Heres the other way to go about it:

http://www.evanwashere.com/StolenSidekick/

Phew! The effort that went into that.

galwaydude18

What is the software called?

Tar.Aldarion

I love this story, now for him totake a picture of his ID, they always do!

yossarin

this is completly true.
not to pimp my own work, but the software is called ShoZu (www.shozu.com)

we've been thinking all morning to figure out how to get more info about the guy. we don't have geotagging of photos yet and unfortunetly we recently (before this client release) stripped down a lot of the info we take from the phone for privacy reasons.

We have a automatic contacts replication option in that client version so we're looking to see if the thief replicates any phone contacts (if its turned on it'll do it automatically to the original owners account on shozu.com).

sioda

Wow that story was mad so in the end the Lone Ranger was wrong its not always good to have a sidekick poor Tonto

Kali

How do you know the person taking the photos is actually the thief in question? Unfortunaly I seriously doubt this could be basis for any proceedings... still damn handy though .. if only I could get my car keys to do this

yossarin

we don;t - we are just going on the photos:

http://flickr.com/photos/23044324@N00/216328029 , etc.

Caco

Stephen wrote:

Assuming its actually his car and he didn't just take a photo of it because he thought it looked cool

Wonder if the plates are traceable?

Perhaps he took a photo of the car right before he stole it aswell!!

r3nu4l

Perhaps he sold the phone on and the person taking the photos doesn't realise it's a stolen phone? Not likely but still possible!

LundiMardi

what kind of phone is that? cos those are some great quality pics, so i now want that phone.. anyone care to enlighten me?

yossarin

flicrk says the images were taken with a Nokia 6682.

if i were you i'd go for a new n80 though