On Mon, 2005-06-20 at 09:50 +1000, James wrote: > Mind you if the theif has half a brain he would stick the box on a private > network and run snort/ethereal et al.. and have a look at what the laptop > does.
I think you are severely overestimating the average thief, let alone the average 'tech savvy' person. Most wouldn't even think of this; they'd only care if the laptop itself worked. I'd suggest, however, a 'phone home' application/device is only going to be effective either if it's hardware based, or you still allow a way for an unauthorised person to login and use the machine. If they're not able to use the machine, they'll probably just re-format it (or, more likely, sell it to somebody who would then do this). -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
