Security system of stolen laptop alerts owner of location

A laptop stolen from a flat here has surfaced nearly 5,000 kilometres away in Iran, after the computer's security software alerted the owner of its location and emailed the photographs of its current users in Tehran.
Animator Dom Deltorto returned to his north London flat, just off the Holloway Road, on February 4 to find he had been burgled and that his iPad and MacBook Pro were missing.
Luckily, he had taken the time to install an application that would report back to him with the laptop's location and photographs taken on the built-in camera, The Telegraph reported.
But for more than a month he heard nothing, until, on March 23 - his birthday - the software emailed to say that the laptop was in Iran's capital, Tehran.

It also attached two images taken from the built-in camera, which appear to show a family who is now using it, framed by the built-in cupboards in a gloomy, windowless room.
The software continues to send images whenever the laptop is used, mostly showing the same woman in various poses in the same residence.

The software has also shown that the MacBook's new owners have been using it to enjoy music by Iranian artists Dayan and Naser Zeynali.
Armed with these images and an exact location, Deltorto called the Islington burglary squad, who had previously dusted for fingerprints but drew a blank.

"The software gives you a latitude and longitude and it's supposed to be accurate up to two metres. I phoned them when it got the email and told them it was in Iran and they thought it was funny," he said. "I thought it'd be more local than that."
Unfortunately, the police said that Iran was out of their jurisdiction and that there was little that they could do apart from report it to Interpol, but warned that it was unlikely to be considered a high priority and may not be investigated for several years.
With little hope of an official resolution, Deltorto has now resorted to setting up a website called 'Dom's laptop is in Iran' and posting images and updates from the laptop's new keepers in the hope that somebody will be able to identify them.