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Comment by arjn | Hacker News Reader

Just looked at the video - the thief paid for her drink with cash so no chance of tracing via credit/debit-card. The best bet is to try and get a good face shot of her and spread the word around. Unfortunately the video quality does not appear good in the Youtube posting.

If there is tracking software installed on the stolen device(s) then of course that's the best avenue for getting it back.

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I managed to get the blog link to load, and there are halfway decent face shots there: http://www.ahryunmoon.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/la...

(Being a direct file link, hopefully people have better luck loading it under load than a dynamic page!)

So, what's that facebook trick that people use to get the name from a photo?

Also, wait til Reddit sees that she didn't leave a tip.

the randomish automatically generated filename for fb photos is unique, and sometimes publicly accessible.

The blog is down again :) New post on Tumblr http://butterflyinyou.tumblr.com/

She also had to ask where the restroom was, suggesting she's never been there before. So she probably won't go there again.

Also, the police can know who was there by looking at the mobile phone locators.

>If there is tracking software installed on the stolen device(s) then of course that's the best avenue for getting it back.

Reminds me of http://preyproject.com/. Pretty handy for people who have laptops or phones which leave a dent in your wallet.

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