Escapted convict uses Facebook to taunt police

[Shikarnov]

Dude has cajones, I'll grant him that.

It takes bravery to attempt a prison break and live in the world as a fugitive. However, taunting the police about it is 100% stupidity.

Speaking of the police -- how hard can it possibly be to figure out the IP address from which he's posting, and then get the real world address to which it was assigned from the ISP? This guy was a common burglar, not an elite hacker.

Here's a thought -- he's posting from Internet Cafes, libraries, and a myriad of OTHER locations -- not the same spot *EVERY SINGLE TIME*

And so what? Put an alarm or whatever on his account, when he logs in, fire off the IP to the police. They can call the ISP using the existing warrant (or whatever folks in the UK call it, assuming such a thing is needed at all in the case of an escapee) to get the real location and route an officer to that location. If they do their jobs right, it should take 5-10 minutes to locate the fucker and nab him while he's sipping his latte at the net cafe or contemplating Leave of Grass at the library.

 

[John Picard]

It takes bravery to attempt a prison break and live in the world as a fugitive. However, taunting the police about it is 100% stupidity.

Speaking of the police -- how hard can it possibly be to figure out the IP address from which he's posting, and then get the real world address to which it was assigned from the ISP? This guy was a common burglar, not an elite hacker.

Here's a thought -- he's posting from Internet Cafes, libraries, and a myriad of OTHER locations -- not the same spot *EVERY SINGLE TIME*

And so what? Put an alarm or whatever on his account, when he logs in, fire off the IP to the police. They can call the ISP using the existing warrant (or whatever folks in the UK call it, assuming such a thing is needed at all in the case of an escapee) to get the real location and route an officer to that location. If they do their jobs right, it should take 5-10 minutes to locate the fucker and nab him while he's sipping his latte at the net cafe or contemplating Leave of Grass at the library.

Someone's been watching too much TV and/or too many movies.

 

[Shikarnov]

Here's a thought -- he's posting from Internet Cafes, libraries, and a myriad of OTHER locations -- not the same spot *EVERY SINGLE TIME*

And so what? Put an alarm or whatever on his account, when he logs in, fire off the IP to the police. They can call the ISP using the existing warrant (or whatever folks in the UK call it, assuming such a thing is needed at all in the case of an escapee) to get the real location and route an officer to that location. If they do their jobs right, it should take 5-10 minutes to locate the fucker and nab him while he's sipping his latte at the net cafe or contemplating Leave of Grass at the library.

Someone's been watching too much TV and/or too many movies.

It's not that hard to add a small subroutine to Facebook's login script. I'm by no means a programmer and can put something together in 5 minutes with basic knowledge and Google.

<?php

function getRealIpAddr()
{
    if (!empty($_SERVER['HTTP_CLIENT_IP']))   //check ip from share internet
    {
      $ip=$_SERVER['HTTP_CLIENT_IP'];
    }
    elseif (!empty($_SERVER['HTTP_X_FORWARDED_FOR']))   //to check ip is pass from proxy
    {
      $ip=$_SERVER['HTTP_X_FORWARDED_FOR'];
    }
    else
    {
      $ip=$_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR'];
    }
    return $ip;
}

$headers = "MIME-Version: 1.0" . "\r\n";
$headers .= "Content-type:text/html;charset=iso-8859-1" . "\r\n";

$Subject = "Fugitive online right now!"

$HTML = "Your fugitive is online at " . getRealIpAddr() . ". Go Get him!"

if ($loginname=="criminal@isp.org") {
     mail("police@co.uk", $Subject, $HTML, $headers)
}
else {
     // do nothing
}
?>

Watching TV has nothing to do with it.

 

[John Picard]

And so what? Put an alarm or whatever on his account, when he logs in, fire off the IP to the police. They can call the ISP using the existing warrant (or whatever folks in the UK call it, assuming such a thing is needed at all in the case of an escapee) to get the real location and route an officer to that location. If they do their jobs right, it should take 5-10 minutes to locate the fucker and nab him while he's sipping his latte at the net cafe or contemplating Leave of Grass at the library.

Someone's been watching too much TV and/or too many movies.

It's not that hard to add a small subroutine to Facebook's login script. I'm by no means a programmer and can put something together in 5 minutes with basic knowledge and Google.

<?php

function getRealIpAddr()
{
    if (!empty($_SERVER['HTTP_CLIENT_IP']))   //check ip from share internet
    {
      $ip=$_SERVER['HTTP_CLIENT_IP'];
    }
    elseif (!empty($_SERVER['HTTP_X_FORWARDED_FOR']))   //to check ip is pass from proxy
    {
      $ip=$_SERVER['HTTP_X_FORWARDED_FOR'];
    }
    else
    {
      $ip=$_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR'];
    }
    return $ip;
}

$headers = "MIME-Version: 1.0" . "\r\n";
$headers .= "Content-type:text/html;charset=iso-8859-1" . "\r\n";

$Subject = "Fugitive online right now!"

$HTML = "Your fugitive is online at " . getRealIpAddr() . ". Go Get him!"

if ($loginname=="criminal@isp.org") {
     mail("police@co.uk", $Subject, $HTML, $headers)
}
else {
     // do nothing
}
?>

Watching TV has nothing to do with it.

Seriously, I bet the police and Facebook are far ahead of you. Hell, I could get a laptop with a wireless card and cruise down the street posting away and you'd never find me Sorry, but you get an EPIC FAIL on that one.

 

[JonathonWally]

Dude has cajones, I'll grant him that.

It takes bravery to attempt a prison break and live in the world as a fugitive. However, taunting the police about it is 100% stupidity.

Speaking of the police -- how hard can it possibly be to figure out the IP address from which he's posting, and then get the real world address to which it was assigned from the ISP? This guy was a common burglar, not an elite hacker.

Here's a thought -- he's posting from Internet Cafes, libraries, and a myriad of OTHER locations -- not the same spot *EVERY SINGLE TIME*

Not to mention from cellphones, blackberrys, ipods, tons of stuff is mobile. Walk down the street, nab some free wifi make a post, keep walking/driving/riding.

Hell, have your post ready, wait for you to have signal as you ride by on a train or a bus, and hit "send" at that instant.

20 minutes later, when the cops find out where the post came from, you're miles away.

 

[Shikarnov]

Maybe I'm just not used to wifi being so endemic. I could drive around my area for weeks and not pick up a connection. But, anyway, I still think you guys give this person a little too much credit. He's a common burglar. It's a wonder he can even write, let alone evade the police electronically.

 

[JonathonWally]

Maybe I'm just not used to wifi being so endemic. I could drive around my area for weeks and not pick up a connection. But, anyway, I still think you guys give this person a little too much credit. He's a common burglar. It's a wonder he can even write, let alone evade the police electronically.

I'm in the NYC metro area, no matter where I go, I hit at least 2-3 wifis at all times.

 

[John Picard]

Maybe I'm just not used to wifi being so endemic. I could drive around my area for weeks and not pick up a connection. But, anyway, I still think you guys give this person a little too much credit. He's a common burglar. It's a wonder he can even write, let alone evade the police electronically.

Just because someone is a common burglar doesn't mean he lacks intelligence He must have some smarts; otherwise he would have been caught right now. Hell, the average 14-year old is tech savvy enough to pull off everything we listed above.

 

[Holdfast]

Just because someone is a common burglar doesn't mean he lacks intelligence He must have some smarts; otherwise he would have been caught right now. Hell, the average 14-year old is tech savvy enough to pull off everything we listed above.

He looks chavvy enough to have bred several illegitimate 14 year old accomplices by now to assist him in his nefarious schemes.

 

[Shikarnov]

Just because someone is a common burglar doesn't mean he lacks intelligence He must have some smarts; otherwise he would have been caught right now. Hell, the average 14-year old is tech savvy enough to pull off everything we listed above.

He looks chavvy enough to have bred several illegitimate 14 year old accomplices by now to assist him in his nefarious schemes.

LOL. This I can believe.

 

[Starbreaker]

Zodiac II

 

[Locutus of Bored]

Just because someone is a common burglar doesn't mean he lacks intelligence He must have some smarts; otherwise he would have been caught right now.

Seriously, insulting the intelligence of a soon to be paroled burglar who "escaped" a prison where they are free to leave to attend jobs during the day only to end up taunting the police online earns a roll-eyes now?

Somehow I doubt this guy had a fellowship at Oxford waiting for him on the outside. He has flare, I'll grant that, but it seems more like the crazy Andy Dick variety than the calculating Riddler type.

As for why he isn't in custody yet, it's probably a mix of some minor precautions on his part that anyone with basic tech experience would know, a whole lot of luck, a public that finds this somewhat amusing and possibly not worth turning him in, and a lack of interest by the police. It's not exactly like this guy is Public Enemy #1.

Well, then Facebook folded when the internet crashed, but his status update's done.
And the first con said to the second man there, damn I'm having fun.
Chav on the run, Chav on the run.
And the jailer man, and bailiff Sam, were searching every one.
For the Chav on the run, Chav on the run. Chav on the run, Chav on the run.

That's catchy. Someone should record that.

 

[RJDiogenes]

"Let's go, let's go, let's go, let's go-- down to Chavvy's Farm where I wanna lay low."

 

[Captain Shaw]

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/21/20100113/tuk-facebook-taunts-prisoner-recaptured-6323e80.html
They got him in the end.

 

[RJDiogenes]

Maybe they'll make a movie about him, like The Great Imposter (or that remake with Tom Hanks that I can't think of the name of).

 

[RoJoHen]

Maybe they'll make a movie about him, like The Great Imposter (or that remake with Tom Hanks that I can't think of the name of).

Catch Me if You Can?

That would actually be kind of funny.

 

[RJDiogenes]

^^ That's the one. It was pretty good, quite different from the original.