So a young man gets arrested for a robbery. Then he gets the charges dropped after Facebook confirms he was home at the time.
Because he posted to his account “from his home computer”.
Seriously?
Ignore the simple fact that someone else could have been logged into his Facebook account at the time, perhaps even—gasp!—an accomplice! Move on to the technical reality that the tools for controlling a computer from a remote location (thereby making the IP records that services like Facebook maintain say you were somewhere other than where you really were) are easy to find, and free or nearly so. I had this one installed and running about 2 hours after activating my new Droid. iPhone users have similar tools at their disposal. And many, many people know about it.
I have no opinion on whether this guy was at home using his computer, or out committing a robbery. And there’s a part of me that finds it unlikely that someone who commits crimes of that sort owns an iPhone or knows how to use it. OH WAIT. NO, THERE ISN’T.
Forget this crime. Think instead about the crime you’re committing against yourself if you don’t open your eyes to the reality of change happening around you.
