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10-02-08, 03:10 PM
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| Aadhavan is Coming  Join Date: Aug 2008 Location: Leaving Chennai Age: 26
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Rep Power: 10   |  How to find your stolen laptop How to find your stolen laptop This peice of info might be useful to all laptop users... These days it has become easy to track a stolen laptop, courtesy, large number of laptop-recovery software. Most of these software automatically transmits the location of the device back to a central server. However, according to several experts, these theft-tracking software also make a user's laptop more vulnerable to spying. To tackle this, researchers at the University of Washington and the University of California, San Diego, have developed a free software that records location information in such a way that only a legitimate user can get access to it. Most of the laptop-tracking software periodically update a database with data related to the laptop's physical location, such as its current IP address and local network topology. While this data helps the security agencies to track the laptop they also help monitor the user's movement if the data is compromised. Called Adeona, it uses several cryptographic techniques to keep location information secure. Like the other software, the laptop running the software still sends location information to a central database, just that the data is encrypted so that it cannot be read without a private cryptographic key. Adeona works with Windows, Macintosh and Linux. For Mac users, it has an add-on that regularly takes photographs using the laptop's built-in camera, to provide further evidence to the police. The researchers are currently working on a version of Adeona for the iPhone. Courtesy: How to find your stolen laptop - Timesofindia |
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10-03-08, 03:47 PM
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| Platinum Member  Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: In my Castle
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Rep Power: 7 | Thanks for that info it was really helpful |
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10-03-08, 09:02 PM
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| Aditya  Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: New Delhi/ London
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Rep Power: 11  | ohh this is great info if it really works |
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10-04-08, 10:40 PM
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| Junior Member Join Date: Sep 2008 Age: 26
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Rep Power: 2 | really nice subject thans u for this!!! |
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10-08-08, 11:00 PM
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| Junior Member  Join Date: Aug 2008
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Rep Power: 2 | I'm going to look into this further. I have lost a laptop before as it was stolen from my car. I hope this works. I'm going to try it on my current laptop. |
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02-24-09, 01:18 PM
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| Platinum Member  Join Date: Aug 2008 Location: oral cavity:D
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Rep Power: 5 | so anyone tried this? reviews plz.. |
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02-24-09, 02:13 PM
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| Platinum Member  Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Nayi Dilli
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Rep Power: 4  | great post.. might be useful in future. rep+ |
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02-24-09, 08:01 PM
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| Junior Member  Join Date: Dec 2008
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Rep Power: 1 | This Adeona thing is a H/W feature or a OS ccomponent. Anyway this concept is subjected to privacy and should die. |
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03-10-09, 05:29 PM
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| Gold Member  Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: On Internet
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Rep Power: 5  | what if i just format the laptop......reset the cmos settings.....huh?? how ur gonna track me?? |
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03-10-09, 08:05 PM
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Rep Power: 4 | Quote:
 !? but the point is true... Last edited by StarK; 03-11-09 at 01:28 AM. | |
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03-10-09, 09:17 PM
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| Bronze Member  Join Date: Dec 2008 Age: 17
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Rep Power: 1 | Finding a stolen laptop is not practically possible bcoz even if u use such software, the thief may format ur laptop or may reinstall the operating system (or use a new one) |
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03-11-09, 05:39 AM
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| Platinum Member Join Date: Sep 2008
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Rep Power: 10 | personally for me privacy > laptop. -F |
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03-11-09, 09:18 AM
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04-17-09, 10:15 AM
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| Junior Member  Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Bangalore, Kanhangad
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Rep Power: 2 | its just an os component. its not worth it may be usefull only when the thief is a big fool. |
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07-13-09, 12:15 AM
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| Aditya Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: New Delhi/ London
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Rep Power: 11 | My friend lost his laptop in evening and this software was not installed in his laptop, so do we have any idea or option to trace the stolen laptop. My friend is looking for my help and i have no idea about this subject  |
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