It can be ammazingly inconvenient to have lost your camera, or if it is stolen: the loss of pictures is a big one, along with the loss of an expensive piece of equipment. However, all is not lost, as one woman found out.

She had left her camera behind in a restaurant (ok, that is her fault) and when she went back to find it, it had been taken by someone else and not handed in. So, fearing that she had lost all the photos on it along with the camera itself, she resigned herself to not seeing it again.

This is where the story gets interesting though – she had been bought a WiFi-enabled SD memory card for her camera a while beforehand, which she was using in the camera at the time. Its purpose is to automatically upload any pictures on the card to your home PC whenever it finds a known wireless network in the area. Pretty useful you’d think, but you really wouldn’t realise how much!

As it would seem, the would-be thieves happened to pass by an unsecured wireless network which the WiFi memory card was able to connect to, sending the woman her missing pictures (hurrah!) and providing an added bonus: pictures of the thieves themselves.

What do you do with a stolen camera? You try it out straight away, of course! Never mind that if its found, you have just provided evidence as to who stole it in the first place. The two people who had taken the camera had taken pictures of each other so once the existing photos had been sent back home, they followed.

Incidentally, the card cost $100 but may well end up saving her a lot more than that!

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