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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. Reformat HD = Free Laptop? by QuantumLeaper · · Score: 5, Insightful

    All you have to do is reformat the hard drive and now some one has your laptop for free.

    1. Re:Reformat HD = Free Laptop? by Vendetta · · Score: 5, Insightful

      How would it be illegal black hat activity on my part? It would be the fault of the douchebag who connected my laptop (that they stole) to this imaginary corporation's network. I'm not the criminal, the person who stole it is. Please, explain your logic to me.

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