Comments on: How to track and recover your Linux laptop if it gets stolen

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By: Tex

Tex — Mon, 21 Mar 2011 21:08:09 +0000

I had a laptop stolen. Fortunately it had a dynamic DNS client (no-ip) on it. We were able to track the machine and eventually recover it. Bonus, the data was intact as well! FYI, it took about 45 days to get through the process with the police, ISP, courts, etc. If we had put a little more software on it (something similar to Prey) we could have recovered it much faster, probably in a week or two.

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Mark — Thu, 03 Mar 2011 18:44:26 +0000

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By: Sticker Printing

Sticker Printing — Tue, 18 Jan 2011 09:20:56 +0000

Well quite an amazing and unique placement from your side. I got surprised that how is it possible that we could easily get our stolen linux laptop easily? But yes no doubt through IP address and DNS it may become possible. Good sharing

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By: shipping car

shipping car — Fri, 07 Jan 2011 22:24:42 +0000

Just FYI, Computrace is anything but foolproof…The Dell bios can be reset, providing you with the choice to disable the Computrace indefinitely…A quick format and reinstall and you have a brand new clean pc…
Just thought you might like to know……

By: shipping car

shipping car — Fri, 07 Jan 2011 19:47:08 +0000

This is a pretty good guide to simply get dyndns up and running though. Rather simplistic method, I would bet if a thief stole a laptop with linux on it (esp one that requires a login to open x) then he would just reformat it. This isn’t going to help with that really.

By: optimization engine search

optimization engine search — Fri, 07 Jan 2011 18:50:59 +0000

I have on my Dell Inspiron 6400 a bios option to enable Computrace LoJack, but it ain’t free. I think it does the same thing but it is format proof.

By: Vandorn

Vandorn — Wed, 05 Jan 2011 16:00:25 +0000

Ok, buy knowing they can’t login to your machine, they will probably be quick to reformat it. I would like to see a solution similar to this, but at the BIOS level

By: Craigslist

Craigslist — Wed, 05 Jan 2011 14:58:45 +0000

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Craigslist — Wed, 05 Jan 2011 14:58:12 +0000

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By: Iomega

Iomega — Fri, 29 Oct 2010 08:04:18 +0000

Very rarely thought about topic. Good that such topics are also discussed. These actually help in recovering stolen laptops and hack its thief.

By: John Hooton

John Hooton — Mon, 14 Jun 2010 15:27:35 +0000

The real flaw in this is the police. Are they going to bother chasing up one laptop of which there are hundreds stolen every day? The sad answer is no, it’s just too much trouble and effort, even if you have done half their work for them.

By: captain stupendous

captain stupendous — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 11:20:11 +0000

I actually do something like this on my box at home, but it isn’t really like LoJack, and it’s not much of a defense.

It’s sort of a weak defense, because computer thieves aren’t going to waste any time on trying to use a linux box. They’ll just wipe it.

Now, if you flashed the BIOS with CoreBoot and executed some pre-boot “phone home” code hidden in a host protected area, *then* you’d have implemented a home-brewed LoJack.

By: yoohoo

yoohoo — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 06:00:56 +0000

if your the thief just use knoppix… now prevent all that…

By: Kaushik

Kaushik — Sun, 28 Sep 2008 09:55:13 +0000

Nice tutorial. There are more tools similar to LoJack and some free and open source ones.

http://www.instantfundas.com/2007/11/how-to-prevent-laptop-theft-or-track.html

By: Endolith

Endolith — Sat, 13 Sep 2008 15:36:37 +0000

“Ubuntu doesn’t require a user login if you set it to automatically log in as a particular user.”

Future versions of Ubuntu will have a Guest account, which the thief can log into and check their mail, etc.

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By: Craig

Craig — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 23:26:08 +0000

So we had a laptop stolen from the office. The first time the thief tried to use it at home I was able to log the source IP (the one the ISP gives to their router).

Now the hard part. What do I do with this information? Can I assume the ISP owning the IP will not give me the name of the account holder? Will the police help to get this person or will they stare blankly at me when I present the information?

I’m just asking… who knows the BEST way to proceed?

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