Re: OT: I've Been Burgled!
Okay, cool. Dad got a new laptop, I installed that Adeona thing and created a strong password for it. It is working just fine, and I am very impressed. Thanks, guys! -tuna --- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss
Re: OT: I've Been Burgled!
Hi, Sorry for the loss, tuna, glad you're ok! Hope you can get something, or that one of your neighbors saw/heard something (I know you said they didn't on IRC last night but perhaps the situation has changed?) ~Ryan On Thu, Oct 9, 2008 at 8:07 PM, Tuna [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: AH Some guy just broke in and stole my dad's laptop! Man... I'm scared... But the police came over and dusted the place, parents filled out insurance forms, and we're ordering pizza tonight instead of going out for Korean food. On a side note, if anyone sees a glossy black HP laptop with Windows Vista on it, missing half of the power cord, 3 weeks old, and has a submarine game installed on it, could you get back to me? ;) kthxbai --- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discusshttp://lists.plug.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss -- Thanks and best regards, Ryan Rix TamsPalm - The PalmOS Blog Jasmine Bowden - Class of 2009, Marc Rasmussen - Class of 2008, Erica Sheffey - Class of 2009, Rest in peace. --- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss
Re: OT: I've Been Burgled!
On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 9:14 AM, Stephen P Rufle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://www.lojackforlaptops.com/ Has anyone actually used this. A poor man's lowjack for laptops is to install ddclient and use dyndns. Any time you turn your computer on, it updates your IP which can then be tracked. http://www.dyndns.com/ Daniel -- | --- | Daniel P. Stasinski | http://www.saidsimple.com | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.disabilities-r-us.com | XMMP: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.avenues.org | Google Talk: mooo| http://www.scriptkitties.com --- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss
Re: OT: I've Been Burgled!
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. --- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss --- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss
Re: OT: I've Been Burgled!
Stephen P Rufle wrote: 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. From my mom: Let him know that Dad really appreciates his generosity, but Dad still has a backup laptop. What a nice bunch of people you associate with!! Thanks anyway! :) --- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss
Re: OT: I've Been Burgled!
I like what I see at Adeona. I would like to point out, that even with this if your criminal is smart enough to wipe the drive. You may never find it, but I think like a car lock, it is certainly better then not having it. I really like the pics at the bottom of the site for the Mac OS X version :) --- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss
RE: OT: I've Been Burgled!
In Oregon, when a laptop was stollen from FreeGeek where I taught, it was swiftly recovered, since the community is fairly small. This looks like a meth hit. Nothing like that chemical to make people want to steal - thinking they are transcending conventionalism with drug use, while feeding quantifiable textbook changing neurochemicals substances into their systems. But then again, our schools are known for robbing, rather than inducing, critical thought? Oppression creates such obsessive responses. pout It was JUST 3 WEEKS old? You didn't even have time to mess up Vista yet? Now you can get a Sony Vaio? http://wapedia.mobi/en/Obnosis || http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/obnosis | Obnosis.com (503)754-4452 Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2008 08:51:58 -0700 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us Subject: Re: OT: I've Been Burgled! Hi, Sorry for the loss, tuna, glad you're ok! Hope you can get something, or that one of your neighbors saw/heard something (I know you said they didn't on IRC last night but perhaps the situation has changed?) ~Ryan On Thu, Oct 9, 2008 at 8:07 PM, Tuna [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: AH Some guy just broke in and stole my dad's laptop! Man... I'm scared... But the police came over and dusted the place, parents filled out insurance forms, and we're ordering pizza tonight instead of going out for Korean food. On a side note, if anyone sees a glossy black HP laptop with Windows Vista on it, missing half of the power cord, 3 weeks old, and has a submarine game installed on it, could you get back to me? ;) kthxbai --- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss -- Thanks and best regards, Ryan Rix TamsPalm - The PalmOS Blog Jasmine Bowden - Class of 2009, Marc Rasmussen - Class of 2008, Erica Sheffey - Class of 2009, Rest in peace. _ Get more out of the Web. Learn 10 hidden secrets of Windows Live. http://windowslive.com/connect/post/jamiethomson.spaces.live.com-Blog-cns!550F681DAD532637!5295.entry?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_WL_domore_092008--- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss
RE: OT: I've Been Burgled!
I just went to the Dell Future of Computing event this week and the Lojack for Laptops folks were there(they have actually changed their name to AbsoluteSoftware), and I hit them up with lots of questions about how the person who stole it could get around it. Basically, if you get one of the new Dell E-family laptops they actually have it encoded in the firmware so even if your thief pulls the HD and puts in a new one, unless he knows where to look in the firmware they can still track and retrieve your laptop. If you want to be vindictive you can also call them and have them activate a worm that will destroy all the data on the HD(and again, since it is on the firmware it will keep working even if they try to install a new HD), so you basically have a doorstop. SHAWN RUTLEDGE -Original Message- From: Stephen P Rufle [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, October 10, 2008 9:14 AM To: Main PLUG discussion list Subject: Re: OT: I've Been Burgled! 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. --- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss
RE: OT: I've Been Burgled!
On my dell laptop the agent is built into the bios. It appears to phone home about once a day. There account website requires IE 6+ to access. My laptop has never been stolen so cannot speak to how well they do or don't recover. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Stephen P Rufle Sent: Friday, October 10, 2008 9:14 AM To: Main PLUG discussion list Subject: Re: OT: I've Been Burgled! 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. --- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss --- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss
