I forget where I had read this, but a woman that was into photography as a hobby, had her camera bag stolen while she eating in a restaurant. Police report was taken, etc....and she went on her way without her cameras.
A few days later, she started getting photos in her email. The photos showed two young men playing around with a couple of her cameras. Apparently, one of her cameras was setup to automatically upload photos to a server whenever it was in a wifi hotspot. She printed the photos and took them to the police. The busboy at the restaurant was subsequently arrested as being one of the thiefs, as his mugshot was on the photos. She got all of her cameras back too.
This reminded me of the story because of the technology. Many, if not most, laptops sold today have a feature that can somehow be enabled that can track the laptop to a particular location should it be stolen. I don’t know if it sends out an ip address or what but I’m sure someone here knows more than I do about this technology.
I read in the comments section of this school laptop story that the juvenile is just covering his butt for sending out pornographic photos of himself and that’s why the folks are suing. Who knows, but the technology is there to enable a webcam from a remote location, that’s for sure!
I remember reading that and was thinking of that when I posted the comment, but couldn’t remember enough of the details to use it as an example.