On Dec 9, 2008, at 11:05 PM, Hector J Rios wrote:
We’ve never been successful in recovering a stolen laptop. So far the thieves have been smart enough not to ever bring those laptops back into our campus. I’m curious to know if any of you have come up with a way to automate the detection of a wireless device. Something like waiting for a laptop’s MAC to come on the wireless network and immediately sending an email to an operator.
I wrote a program that listens to mac address learned traps from our edge switches. After years of it running, I think we found a misplaced (not stolen) laptop only once. I figure the stolen ones all go to ebay. Dale ********** Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE Constituent Group discussion list can be found at http://www.educause.edu/groups/.
