A Georgetown University student who was attacked and beaten because of his sexual orientation, took matters into his own hands and searched Facebook in an attempt to identify his attacker. CNN reports that "When he found a profile of someone who looked like his attacker, police investigated, then created a photo spread of possible suspects. The victim picked Cooney's photo from the photo spread and Washington police worked with Georgetown University Public Safety officers to arrest him." This is the second such incident of technology being used by victims of crime to catch the criminals, that I've heard of this week. The other incident is a little more humorous, a Vancouver company that was robbed of several computers found pictures of a shirtless man on it's flickr site. It seems that one of the machines that had been stolen had software installed on it that would automatically upload any photos taken by the computer's built-in camera to it's Flickr.com account. They were careful to say that the man in the picture did not necessarily steal the computer but was obviously in possession of it! Score a couple for the good guys!
