This is a great story about how an app called ‘Hidden’ was used to recover a stolen MacBook. Apple has long had an app that can locate a lost iPhone or iPad but ‘Hidden’ goes one step further by taking photos from the laptop’s webcam and sending them back to the owner. In this case owner and interative designer Joshua Kaufman was able to retreive his machine after posting pictures of the machine’s “new owner” on his blog and providing police in Oakland, Canada with the information.
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