I don't know about that but I did read a report about someone who used the Back To My Mac feature and got screen images of the person using her stolen computer and was able to recover it from that. She knew the person she was seeing which of course helped tremendously in tracking down the thief. -- Brian
On Nov 18, 2008, at 3:45 PM, richardsan san wrote: > will this work? > it's a response to "someone stole my imac and i see them trying to > launch ichatT" > > Set up a new AIM account, login to it and add your old screen name > as a buddy. Launch Terminal from the Utilities folder. Type in: > > netstat -n > > DO NOT HIT RETURN YET. > > Make sure you aren't doing anything else on your network. Turn off > your email client, close your web browser, no streaming audio or > video, etc. You want your computer to be "network silent" other than > AIM (iChat). > > Prepare a large-ish (at least 5-10MB or so) file attachment. Doesn't > matter what it is but name it something juicy like "Heather & Nicole > at the Beach" or something. Basically, you want to entice the person > to accept the download. > > Then, wait. The next time you see your old screen name appear, > immediately open a chat with the person. Pretend that you're a > friend and say something like "Hey John, here are those *nice* pics > of Heather and Nicole I was telling you about before." (Substituting > your real name for "John" of course.) Then, before the person can do > anything else, send that file. HOPEFULLY the person will accept the > transfer. > > WHILE THE TRANSFER IS HAPPENING, jump back to Terminal and hit > RETURN. You'll see a bunch of active internet connections with one > column named "Send-Q" and another column named "Foreign Address". If > your computer is "network silent" then all the numbers in the "Send- > Q" column should be zero - EXCEPT ONE. That one is the person > receiving your file. Look under the column "Foreign Address" to get > that person's IP address. > > At that point I'd suggest aborting the file transfer and immediately > log off AIM to give the impression that you're having internet > problems. The other person won't be able to restore your file so he > won't know that he's been set up. > > You can now use that IP address to find out what ISP the person is > using and, with any luck, get a rough geolocation of the person. At > that point I'd suggest going to the police with that information and > have them investigate. > > > > -- > "...don't tell them anything! they haven't even tortured you yet!" > > TRAC! TRAC! > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "StrataList-OT" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/StrataList-OT?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
