I had already heard about the Lojack device a few years ago, whereby you are able to have your stolen vehicle (car, truck & motorcycle) tracked by a remotely activated on board radio signal transmitter and hopefully you get your vehicle back intact.
Now the same company has licensed its name to LoJack for Laptops from Absolute software. Based on the remote detection of hidden software installed on your laptop calling home on a regular basis. If stolen, you report this to the authorities and as in the case of Lojack for vehicles, they swing into action and hopefully recover your laptop. The makers claim that this will work even if your hard drive is reformatted! Some laptop manufacturers are also starting to install a licensed version embedded in a recovery chip on their laptop motherboard!
Interesting use of technology I think (I don’t have it, nor am I linked to the companies). There is also some other very interesting software products from Absolute Software including a remote deletion of data product, I suppose in case the laptop can’t be physically located and can only be seen on the Internet! Clever stuff?
Forbes article about software, [1], Blog link [2], interesting forum discussion on +’s & -‘s [3] & [4].
Tags: Laptop theft, Internet
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