Add Laptop Location Tracking Security, for Free


	Add Laptop Location Tracking Security, for Free

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                        A new open source project allows computer users to add surreptitious location tracking to their systems. Windows, Mac and Linux versions are available.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.yahoo.com/s/zd/229887"><A href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/zd/tc_zd/storytext/229887/28265503/SIG=112j51q6h/*http://adeona.cs.washington.edu/" linkindex="35" set="yes"><SPAN id="lw_1216337552_0" class="yshortcuts">Adeona, from researchers at the University of Washington and the University of California, San Diego</SPAN></A>, anonymously sends data to servers on a free storage system called <A href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/zd/tc_zd/storytext/229887/28265503/SIG=10ldkaqim/*http://opendht.org/" linkindex="36" set="yes"><SPAN id="lw_1216337552_1" class="yshortcuts">OpenDHT</SPAN></A>. The data, which is encrypted, includes IP addresses, information about neighboring routers, and so forth. If your notebook ever gets stolen you can log into the system from another computer, access the data and notify authorities with it. Working with ISPs they should be able to locate it. The Mac version also uses a freeware program called isightcapture to take a picture of whoever is using the system.</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/27E52BE8-0E58-42A1-80B5-FC2EABD6083D/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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