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Open Source Adeona Tracks Lost & Stolen Laptops

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the marco-polo-marco-polo dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Adeona is the first Open Source system for tracking the location of your lost or stolen laptop that does not rely on a proprietary, central service. This means that you can install Adeona on your laptop and go — there's no need to rely on a single third party. What's more, Adeona addresses a critical privacy goal different from existing commercial offerings. It is privacy-preserving. This means that no one besides the owner (or an agent of the owner's choosing) can use Adeona to track a laptop. Unlike other systems, users of Adeona can rest assured that no one can abuse the system in order to track where they use their laptop."

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  1. Hmm... by dahitokiri · · Score: 5, Funny

    Mobile device + Linux + Adeona == cheap way to keep tabs on your girlfriend/wife/kids at all times?

    1. Re:Hmm... by BPPG · · Score: 4, Funny

      What??? Little Jimmy has his laptop open at the local strip bar? Sweet, I didn't know they had open wifi!

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    2. Re:Hmm... by cthulu_mt · · Score: 5, Funny

      ...No, he knew where she was the whole time...

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    3. Re:Hmm... by Potatomasher · · Score: 4, Funny

      woha ! +3 Informative ?
      Guys... THE strip bar doesn't really have open wifi. It was a joke. Now come back to your desks...

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    4. Re:Hmm... by BPPG · · Score: 2, Funny

      I'm as surprised as you are.

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    5. Re:Hmm... by j-pimp · · Score: 3, Funny

      Hans shot first!!!

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    6. Re:Hmm... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      It is always necessary to bring a trojan with you to the strip club

  2. Prior art ? by Gothmolly · · Score: 4, Funny

    I get warnings that my computer is broadcasting its IP address all the time !

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  3. No proprietary, central service? by iminplaya · · Score: 3, Funny

    This sounds suspiciously like some kind of P2P thing. I think it should be outlawed :\

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  4. Comment removed by account_deleted · · Score: 3, Funny

    Comment removed based on user account deletion

  5. Re:Missing.. by BPPG · · Score: 2, Funny

    Well, desktops tend to have rotary garfuncters, laptops use malleable garfuncters. Also, desktops tend to be too large, it needs to be on a smaller laptop for the software to work properly. Any computer shop employee can explain this to you.

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  6. Re:Missing.. by Arcane_Rhino · · Score: 4, Funny

    But do you often take your desktop PC out for coffee?

    Well, not so much anymore. Once I realized it was a "sure thing" I kind of stopped the romance.

    I felt kinda bad until I inserted the comment, "I wanna just stay in today" on the start-up splash.

  7. Re:But without a central service by pushing-robot · · Score: 3, Funny

    Good lord, man! Misusing an apostrophe in a Slashdot thread? When the parent poster owns an open-source justice mob?

    Delete your account! Throw away your computer! RUN FOR THE HILLS!

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  8. Re:But without a central service by FreakinSyco · · Score: 2, Funny

    Leads? Sure, I'll just check down with the boys at the crime lab... They've got four more detectives on this case... They've got us workin' in shifts!