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Mac Theft Recovery Software Tracks Thieves
Dubpal writes "Apple Macintosh users can now fit their machines with theft protection software that reports back on what a thief is doing with their computer, should it ever be stolen. The software, named "Undercover" allows users to report their Macs as stolen, causing the software to report back with IPs, screenshots and even a picture of the thief and his surroundings. In addition to this, Undercover begins faking hardware faults, displaying messages and even reading them aloud, alerting anyone around that the Mac's been stolen."
It is quite common to post ones little thoughts around a subject without reading TFA, and that is, if not OK then at least human. But when your ambition is to reveal supposedly fatal flaws with a product, you really should check your facts about what it claims to do, or at the very least re-read the abstact to make sure you at least understood that correctly.
Hint: it doesn't discover it is stolen, you (the owner) report it as such to the company.
sudo ergo sum
Follow the advice of the manufacturer and install a firmware password. Then it WON'T be useless.
Horsecrap. The firmware password is trivial to get around - you can just add Ram & remove it. Bam. Done.
There are shills on slashdot. Apparently, I'm one of them.