That is pretty cool. I also saw that all Dell laptops have a tracker
inside the Bios. Amazing! I saw it and was like of course! Not sure it
was Open Source but I am sure it would not be long. I guess privacy
experts might balk at a phone home machine, but in the case of recovery
it would be amazing.
Simon
Kiggundu Mukasa wrote:
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
<http://www.opendht.org/> 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........................
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