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Monday, December 28, 2009

Rescuing my stolen laptop with RescueTime - Day 1

So my laptop was stolen from my house middle of the night on 8th December. Therefore it was no surprise that my RescueTime (a software I installed to check my own productivity) email started to say they cant get any data from my computer.

Therefore, I was quite shocked to get the email last night saying my rescuetime is working again and I was not very productive. Really? Wow. Is it totally empty and thus not productive or someone is using my pc now?


I immediately went to check my dashboard. And vola!!! the thief must have sold it to someone else!! How cool !!! Not even a week and it already went to the market, and is already bought by someone and is working full swing!!! Who says things does not work fast here?




But wait a minute? What on earth is xunlove.com ? First thought - a porn site? So I went to the site and found it is a chinese site. Made a quick google translate and found it is something to do with romantic novel writing.
So my thief is a writer. How brilliant!!!! He steals pc to write romantic novels. Wow.
So can I get more info of what he is looking at?


Oh no!!! I am using free version. Can I upgrade!!! Oh gosh. I have totally used up my credit limit to buy my new macbook. =( Can I still see the posts?

At that point of time I was getting really frustrated. Why did not I buy the pro package. And suddenly got the solution - referrals. I immediately sent to liwan and asked her to sign up. Once she signed up I got two weeks of pro access. Cool. Anyone who is reading it, please get the pro version. It is totally worth it.

So, here both me and liwan are now looking at what the person have done. First thing first, the folders.



Ok, so the names of the person is probably the same as the pendrive. Since I am not sure yet if this is the person who stole the laptop, I will blur the name first. But lets use this information to check with his other details now.

So going in more details I see the one of the most used one is facebook. Can I get his identity of that?



So I am now going through the facebook list and I start to find interesting similarities.



For not publishing the name, I have skipped few more facebook screenshots that I got. And after going through all of the details, I have concluded for now that this person is the one who is using it.

I also found that this is a girl, not a guy as I thought at first. And based on the rest of the details, I am quite sure that she bought it from someone who sold it saying this is a second hand laptop. I am very sure she does not know what is going on. I will need to find more info tomorrow.

Update: I wrote a second post on talking to her and more updates.

9 comments:

  1. kudos! 21st century Sherlock Holmes!

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  2. thank you. thank you. Technology can be scary hahaha

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  3. so did you get back your laptop yet?

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  4. Congrats on your find!..and this rescuetime software looks really helpful for subscription..my! my! good biz testimonial $ can't buy. :)

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  5. @ Daniel: Well, you can use the free one to start with haha. Besides that, it is really good software man. Go buy pro haha.

    Besides being cool software, they are also very nice people. So no harm supporting them.

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  6. I thought men have power, not passwords ...

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  7. Laptop battery tips! Is it good or bad to run the laptop without the battery?

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