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Crime doesn't pay - at least not if you're stupid - Wired reports on a woman whose camera gear was stolen, and then located because the thief not only used it, but inadvertantly sent photos of his work to her:
The Eye-Fi SD card, once plugged into your camera, hooks up to the internet and sends your photos to either an online sharing site or directly back to your home machine. In this case it was the latter, and the hapless thief not only sent the precious vacation shots back to Alison's computer, but -- according to the email we received from Gadget Lab reader Joe Volat -- "pictures [of] the thieves proudly displaying Alison's lifted camera equipment."