I use:
http://adeona.cs.washington.edu/
"Adeona is the first Open Source system for tracking the location
of your lost or stolen laptop that does not rely on a proprietary,
central service. This means that you can install Adeona on your laptop
and go — there's no need to rely on a single third party. What's more,
Adeona addresses a critical privacy goal different from existing
commercial offerings. It is privacy-preserving. This means
that no one besides the owner (or an agent of the owner's choosing) can
use Adeona to track a laptop. Unlike other systems, users of Adeona can
rest assured that no one can abuse the system in order to track where
they use their laptop.
Adeona is designed to use the Open Source OpenDHT distributed storage service
to store location updates sent by a small software client installed on
an owner's laptop. The client continually monitors the current location
of the laptop, gathering information (such as IP addresses and local
network topology) that can be used to identify its current location.
The client then uses strong cryptographic mechanisms to not only
encrypt the location data, but also ensure that the ciphertexts stored
within OpenDHT are anonymous and unlinkable. At the
same time, it is easy for an owner to retrieve location information."
Stephen P Rufle wrote:
http://www.lojackforlaptops.com/
Has anyone actually used this. I only found out about it after I bought
my last laptop. Seems to be good for cars, but for a laptop how easy
would it be to turn it off or find whatever makes the signal?
Otherwise I after hearing about Tuna I am thinking this would be cheap
insurance for the aggravation I know I would suffer if some one took my
computers.
Tuna if you need to borrow a laptop for some period, I have a Dell D600
I could let you borrow till you get a new one.
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