House robbed. Laptop taken. Now I have his fixed IP. What now?

Woody_FX · 18 Jan 2012 at 00:16

Hi guys,

I've a work laptop and my own personnel laptop. Creep broke into my house robbed my macbook and about 4000 of other stuff. He then went and logged in, macbook has dropbox on it so I can see his IP address, its from a very small ISP that provides fixed IP address to there customers.

What should I do next? Anything I can do to track who it is? Anything I should try and trick the cretin to install by dropping file into dropbox that can get me more details on him?

The mofo also thrashed my house. I want blood.

-Cheers
W

bsoltan · 18 Jan 2012 at 00:18

Tell the police and have it put on the report?

Dr House · 18 Jan 2012 at 00:19

suggest you give all the info you have to the police.

Westyfield2 · 18 Jan 2012 at 00:19

4chan

Zefan · 18 Jan 2012 at 00:20

Westyfield2 said:
4chan

This. Definitely this.

Really though? The police.

Brookert · 18 Jan 2012 at 00:21

How did they get in?

Moley · 18 Jan 2012 at 00:32

This is why all my computers have Prey installed.

StoutMeister · 18 Jan 2012 at 00:33

What's his ip?

[FnG]magnolia · 18 Jan 2012 at 00:35

Don't call the police, post on a computer forum who think '4 chan' is both a funny and useful answer.

Tolmekian · 18 Jan 2012 at 00:36

Tell the police all the details mentioned in the OP and they should be able to track him/her down via the ISP.

It sucks to hear this btw, I hope you have insurance?

garyfl · 18 Jan 2012 at 00:36

i think if you post the ip someone onhere will have some trickary, maybe theyl be able to instal some kind of keylogger then play it quiet and log all his keystrokes

shortly after this and meanwhile,tell the police too, dont limit it all to just one option.

bitslice · 18 Jan 2012 at 00:38

Let the Police post on 4Chan for you

TurnipHead · 18 Jan 2012 at 00:39

4chan will do a better job.

xJcBx · 18 Jan 2012 at 00:45

This:

p.s skip to like 3 minutes.

Threepwood · 18 Jan 2012 at 00:48

i think if you post the ip someone onhere will have some trickary, maybe theyl be able to instal some kind of keylogger then play it quiet and log all his keystrokes

Trouble is the person using the laptop might not be the thief, could be someone totally innocent.

On topic, obviously, go to the police.

Tummy · 18 Jan 2012 at 00:49

Really? I mean! REALLY?

andy_mk3 · 18 Jan 2012 at 00:54

Inform your dentist immidiately.

Roadkillv1 · 18 Jan 2012 at 00:54

[FnG]magnolia;21058915 said:
Don't call the police, post on a computer forum who think '4 chan' is both a funny and useful answer.

it is a useful answer! they'll prolly do more than the police will. all the police will say is blabla lack of manpower blabla.

[FnG]magnolia · 18 Jan 2012 at 01:05

They don't appear to be his personal army so unfortunately he may have to resort to the far less obvious and impractical choice of going to the police.

Redz · 18 Jan 2012 at 01:09

Call the A-team