Why should not robbed by a hacker

Mon unrest London where wholesale stole from stores and homes, it is difficult to believe that police find stolen laptop specifically what the London streets were hundreds of casual thieves. In those riots, of the home of Greg Martin stole his MacBook Pro laptop. But unfortunately this thief, Mr.. Martin is not a casual user, but a former employee of the FBI and NASA and is an IT specialist in computer security. In all his experience, this sounds like a stolen laptop from James Bond.
While on his blog InfoSecurity 2.0 objasnuva that the laptop was installed Prey, open source monitoring to continuously monitor the laptop and phone in case of a lost or stolen.

After two days the software has located the thief, "the next thing you do is buy cigarettes and ran back to the hotel for the games begin ... enlarge the frequency at which it received reports of one every five minutes to try to get a picture of it while using gmail or facebook to see his name and his login data.
Having watched two hours Surva religious videos, considering to buy a Mercedes A class of autotrader, he finally appeared on Facebook! "
From here Mr. Martin, beside a picture of the thief taken with the camera of Macbook Pro via Pray, collected information for its IP address, home address, Facebook page, name and where going to school.
With all that information was only required to hand them over to police it appeared at the door of the thief and return the laptop to the correct owner.