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Protecting My Daughter's Notebook?
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."
Of course for this to work, the laptop'd need a working Internet connection.
If it's stolen, it probably won't get connected to the Internet...
Also because of the logon passwords, probably the first thing that'll happen to it is it'll be reinstalled off a pirated copy of Windows and it'll no longer have the software to phone home.