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Re: [PLUG] Laptop recovery--useful data to collect?
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I worked for a company that used a "Laptop Lojack" service, which was
based off IP. It would geolocate based on IP and tell you where stolen
laptops were. They're work with the police to recover stolen laptops:
I think we had about a 50% success rate with them. I remember one
ending up in the Dominican Republic! The other nice functionality was
the ability to remote wipe. IIRC, it was about $100 per unit. If
you're storing very sensitive data, it is a no brainer. The company
was called AbsoluteSoftware:
http://www.absolute.com/en/
There site may contain some hints on their recovery techniques. Good luck!
Regards,
-Tim
On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 11:33 AM, Chris Nehren
<c.nehren/plug@shadowcat.co.uk> wrote:
> On Jul 13, 2010, at 10:01 PM, Gordon Dexter wrote:
>
>> I'm setting up my Eee 901 netbook with a 'phone-home' type shell script that will collect various data in the event that it is stolen. I used to have Adeona but I found that DHT is no longer working, and that didn't get webcam shots anyways, so I thought I'd roll my own. The script will check for a certain subdomain that I will only create when the laptop is stolen, and then make a tarball with info that might help me find the thief and get my laptop back.
>>
>> So far I'm getting
>> *webcam frame grabs using streamer
>> *screen captures with scrot
>> *wireless network scan (iwlist)
>> *IP address and routing info of course
>
> See if you can have it use HTML5 location services to get an accurate location of the device. You'd probably need to script WebKit, which shouldn't be too hard.
> --
> Thanks and best regards,
> Chris Nehren
>
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