We have used Computrace on all our laptops for over 10 years. With the exception of a couple that called in from Iran and Russia, we have been able to recover all our stolen units. Needless to say it works quite well, and the company is great to work with.
Steven Eisenberg Director of Technology Episcopal High School 4650 Bissonnet St. Bellaire, TX 77401 713 512-3460 -----Original Message----- From: The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Constituent Group Listserv [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tim Cantin Sent: Wednesday, December 10, 2008 6:12 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Detecting Stolen Laptops... We put CompuTrace on all our college-owned laptops, and Campus Police had direct access to the admin portal for it. When something is stolen, they don't even need our involvement. BTW, I'm assuming a stolen laptop won't be put back on OUR network, but eventually it may hit someone else's. As soon as it goes online anywhere, the "red flag" pops. I honestly don't know if we've ever had one stolen, and then if so if CompuTrace helped recover it. Someone else here manages that software (but I can ask if you're really curious). On Tue, 9 Dec 2008, Hector J Rios wrote: > Date: Tue, 9 Dec 2008 23:05:54 -0600 > From: Hector J Rios <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Reply-To: The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Constituent Group Listserv > <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Subject: [WIRELESS-LAN] Detecting Stolen Laptops... > > Once in a while we get calls from the university police department > asking us to search for stolen laptops. We use the stolen laptop's MAC > address to search in both DHCP and WCS (we are a Cisco shop). 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. > > > > Thanks, > > > > Hector Rios > > Louisiana State University > > > ********** > Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE Constituent Group discussion list can be found at http://www.educause.edu/groups/. > > -Tim --- Tim Cantin, Senior Network Engineer Wellesley College, IS / Technology Infrastructure 223 Simpson Hall East, 106 Central Street Wellesley, Massachusetts 02481-8203 http://www.wellesley.edu/~tcantin/ phone: (781)283-3520 fax: (781)283-3682 ********** Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE Constituent Group discussion list can be found at http://www.educause.edu/groups/. ********** Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE Constituent Group discussion list can be found at http://www.educause.edu/groups/.
