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[–] Dazza 23 points 1 year ago (2 children)

This is a great security feature. Is it an app?

[–] WhiskyTangoFoxtrot 38 points 1 year ago (1 children)

No, it's a cat. You can tell by the ears.

[–] elscallr 4 points 1 year ago

There used to be an app that was a cat. It was almost definitely spyware, though.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's a cool story

[–] ransomwarelettuce -1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I heard some phone did that, but laptops as far as I am aware neither windows or MacOS supports it maybe some display-manager on Linux with custom patches would do it.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Windows has so many settings in local group policy editor for passwords, I'm sure there's a way to detect failed attempts with a script in task scheduler and take a picture. I don't know how myself but it's probably possible. Idk about Mac. And for Linux, you can probably have it install a tracker on the thief's phone over bluetooth...