A 38 year old Home Depot worker was arrested for stealing laptops from Wells Fargo. Wells Fargo will be able to keep the $100,000 reward it had offered in the case, since the arrest was made from regular police work and not a tip. The article glosses over an important point: how was the stolen computer identified? Wells Fargo may have deployed one of the “Lojack for laptops” solution discussed recently by SC Magazine that send a beacon announcing their presence. The original article said “Krastof logged onto his own America Online account””]
Source: https://taosecurity.blogspot.com/2003/11/wells-fargo-laptop-thief-arrested.html