A picture of the ceiling of our office at home, as taken by Adeona , an open-source, cross-platform security tool, when we were out shopping. Adeona does what some pay applications does—it periodically (and randomly) uploads the IP of your computer to an encrypted location on the Internet. Moreover, when run on a Mac, it will take a picture of who is using the machine at the time.
info: ======== start location data ========= update time: 07/14/2008,19:30 (EDT) internal ip: 192.168.1.2 external ip: [Removed by Casey] access point: [Removed by Casey]
Nearby routers: 1 1.660ms 192.168.1.1 (Wireless_Broadband_Router.home) 2 7.953ms [Removed by Casey] (could not resolve) info: ========= end location data ==========
Thus, if my laptop ever gets stolen, I can presumably locate it geographically by IP address. Moreover, I may very likely have a picture of the schmuck who stole it.
Granted, there are many easy ways around this, such as wi...
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Post Date: 2008-03-04 18:11:00
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