Re: Trace stolen or lost laptops....
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- Date: Fri, 4 Jul 2008 01:55:03 -0700
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"Flash Gordon" <spam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Chilly8 wrote, On 19/06/08 20:21:
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"prax" <pranxter@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Some of you who have laptops will surely be worried about the surge in
the theft of laptops. Even I was wondering on the technologies that
could track stolen laptops and computing devices. Some of the things I
could think of were ? GPS dots (like in Hollywood movies), IMEI
On problem with GPS is that it can be jammed. You can buy
GPS jammers as cheap as $200.
Or probable make one for less than $20 if it is only jamming the public
signals.
Anyway, it isn't the GPS you have to worry about it is whatever method
that is used for transmitting the positional information. If you are
receiving the signal then it *can* be tracked down even if the signal has
absolutely no positional information.
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Flash Gordon
As you probably know, we support the use of things like GPS
jammers, proxies, and the like.
And such things can come in handy. After the cyclone in Myanmar
I went there and did reports on my online radio station, but used
an encrypted VPN connection, so the authorities in Mymanmar
would NEVER know what I was up to. They would know I
was making a heavily encrypted outbound connection, but they
would never know that there was yet another reporter reporting
illegally (the Junta does not like reporters very much). Since
I was using an encrypted VPN connection to my servers,
the Junta would have NEVER been able to find out what
I was up to. Since there is one upscale tourist resort only
about 1 hour's drive from where much of the destruction
was, so it was not hard to bluff my way in, by getting a
7-day tourist permit. As long as I left before the permit
expired, which I did, there was no problem. With the
connection encrypted, there was no POSSIBLE way
for the ruling Military Junta to find out what I was up to.
.
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