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Protecting My Daughter's Notebook?

Posted by Cliff on from the quick-phone-home-with-IP-scripts dept.

ctwxman asks: "My daughter enters college in the fall. This past week she spent three days on campus for orientation... and had her iPod stolen! That got me to thinking about protecting her brand new laptop. I'll physically lock it to something immovable -- that's simple. However, I've got a website and it's got a log. Is there a way to make her laptop quietly 'phone home' every time it boots so I can get the IP address and always see where it is? Her machine runs XP, but knowing Slashdot, suggestions for all OSes will be appreciated."

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  1. how about.... by AresTheImpaler · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    how about protecting your daugjter? you know, there are a lot of bad people at the universities. D:

  2. iPod theft... by rthille · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I talked to my friend at Apple and suggested that they add some software to the iPod and iTunes so that you can require a password whenever you dock the iPod. If you can't supply the password then the iPod locks up and phones home.
    He thought it was a good idea, but he's sort of a flake, so who knows if it's something they'd ever do.

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