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Which Lost/Stolen Laptop Trackers Do You Like?
saudadelinux writes "I was held up at gunpoint in July, and my laptop was stolen. There are companies out there which, for a fee, install tracker software on your laptop. If it's stolen or lost, they track its whereabouts whenever it gets on the 'Net and work with local law enforcement and ISPs to find the machine. I'm wondering: has anyone used one of these services? Does anyone have a recommendation for which company to go with? My new laptop is a a dual-boot Ubuntu/XP machine, and the couple of companies I've looked at do Windows-only. Are there Linux options?"
first post!
It is called gcc. Write your own damned code buddy.
sed -e 's/Chuck Norris/Rajnikant/g' joke > fact
"The hardware can be covered by insurance."
Would you like to make a recommendation for where I can acquire "mugging insurance"?
"If those programs can track muggers, they can also track you and that's why I wouldn't trust them."
Could I just get one day where an intelligent discussion isn't spoiled by seeing this kind of mentally imbalanced crap get modded straight up?
This isn't a fucking discussion about privacy assholes, it's about tracking software and what works. What your stupid paranoid ass doesn't realize is that we WANT THEM TO FUCKING TRACK IT, AND WE WANT IT DONE WELL. That you have a mental illness is not topical.
Which bring me to the last point, this fucking guy was off-topic. He didn't answer the question, and his attempt to do so was both useless and wrong.
Yet there he sits at +5 for spouting paranoid nonsense.
Nice job mods, how about you eat shit and die?
He did a mistake. He did not pull the trigger before the guy called the cops. Had he done that, he would have helped to clean up the messy society we have today.
But of course, thats not the solution.