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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Technology
Bobbie Johnson, technology correspondent

Burgle off

This one has been picked up by a few news organisations today, but the Daily Telegraph puts it on the front page.

A burglar has been jailed after being filmed by the computer he was stealing.

Benjamin Park, 19, broke into the home of Duncan Grisby, a software developer who had installed a motion-activated security camera in his computer. Park smashed a ground floor window of Mr Grisby's house in Cambridge and stole the computer and other equipment worth £3,719. The hidden webcam caught him in the act and a back-up system transferred the images to Mr Grisby's private website. When 30-year-old Mr Grisby returned from holiday this month, the pictures were handed over to police, leading to the arrest of Park, who was already on bail for an attempted burglary in Ely.



See, that old webcam you've got stuffed away in a box really can be useful after all.

UPDATE: Thanks to commenter Grom, who pointed out Duncan's website at grisby.org and his page dedicated to the pictures in question.

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