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    Undercover recovery story - Stolen Mac

    This makes great reading, just shows how good technology is becoming.

    http://orbicule.com/undercover/recovery.html

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    great read. Very interesting.

    I assume from this that if the theif had formatted/rebuilt the mac before connecting it to the net, the undercover software would not be inplace to carry out the reporting.

    Still - fantastic idea. Probably the next step in IT security is to have this software burned on to a ROM chip.
    It is Inevitable.....


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    Quote Originally Posted by ikonia View Post
    great read. Very interesting.

    I assume from this that if the theif had formatted/rebuilt the mac before connecting it to the net, the undercover software would not be inplace to carry out the reporting.
    truesay...

    If the guy hadnt had the Undercover software, the chance of him getting his macbook back would've been what..? close to none? would be cool if they could implement this in iPods and other stuff, ie when it comes to sync it somehow gets checked on a database not so sure how you'd take a photo of the thief tho!
    Last edited by streetster; 11-12-2006 at 03:34 PM. Reason: i need to learn how to spell thief.

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    That's a very clever use of the technology available and put to use in a good way too. I hope more internet connectible equipment will have this feature in the future .

    Best bit:
    Now that the thief has removed most personal files from the Mac, he starts playing games (see below) and watching porn (not shown here).

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    The thief has a seriously deformed forehead.

    great way to catch him though.
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    stupid betond belief.
    You owe it to yourself to click here really.

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    i wonder how easy it would be for a well-motivated individual to use this software for there own needs.. if you see what i mean

    sounds like a gaping wide backdoor if you ask me
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    Quote Originally Posted by MadduckUK View Post
    sounds like a gaping wide backdoor if you ask me
    Someone will come along and kick your backdoors in.
    Quote Originally Posted by Blitzen View Post
    stupid betond belief.
    You owe it to yourself to click here really.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Clunk View Post
    The thief has a seriously deformed forehead.
    plus no eyes or mouth, poor fella

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    awwww. its no wonder he's turned to a life of crime really
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    pretty cool service

    format c: first tbh

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    I read, where I don't remember, about software like this which wasn't part of
    Windows etc and wouldn't be affected by formatting. It wasn't exactly detailed about how it worked but I think it creates its own partition which
    is hidden from windows and also cant be deleted when say adding and
    removing partitions doing an XP install.

    No doubt a program could be made to detect such a partition but I found it
    pretty impressive from what i read.

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    Excellent read and very impressive

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    Quote Originally Posted by MadduckUK View Post
    i wonder how easy it would be for a well-motivated individual to use this software for there own needs.. if you see what i mean

    sounds like a gaping wide backdoor if you ask me
    Thats why they need a police report and a crime number.

    Sure, you could use this to find where your cheating spouse has gone, but you would have to make a false police report to do so, and that would get you into a whole heap of trouble.

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    you dont see what i mean
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    very interesting, especially with the screen shots of important stuff and an actual image of the guy himself, I would get that but if anyone tried carrying my PC away without anyone noticing they would have difficulty

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