Open Source Adeona Tracks Lost & Stolen Laptops

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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Create a no password user account. Good idea?

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If all my user accounts are password protected, then even a dumb or lazy thief will probably want to do a disk wipe - and no more Adeona protection. So I created a non-administrator account, helpfully call NoPassword, so that a wipe is (apparently) unnecessary. I don't see much of a downside to this.