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Prey – Open source computer theft protection
Posted by Webmaster in Technicians Toolkit on December 15, 2009
It is something we all fear; coming into the office in the morning to find out your workstation, or server, was stolen during the night. Or leaving your laptop unattended for mere seconds only to find out it’s disappeared. Apart from the costs of replacing your stolen computer hardware, there’s the company data that’s now out on the street. (You’ll be feeling a lot better if you encrypted that data though – we’ll be adding an article on the excellent Open Source encryption solution called TrueCrypt soon…)
Gone forever? It might be. But in case the thief does not immediately formats the hard-disk but instead uses the laptop or PC anywhere it’s connected to the internet, there’s a number of services that actually track and locate your stolen equipment, using IP addresses and more. There’s LocateMyLaptop, LocateLaptop, and so on (read the WikiPedia article on this). Trouble with all these, is that they are subscription (and European/US) based. Read the rest of this entry »
Mobile Access
Every day, we see a larger percentage of our site-visitors using a mobile phone as opposed to a full-blown web-browser. Just like in Tanzania mobiles phones overtook the hardly used land-line system as the preferred method of communications, now modern phones come equipped with web-browsers, making the trip to an internet cafe a thing of the past.
However, your website that looks so nice on a big screen, will be almost impossible to access from the small screen of most mobile phones. Pictures, fancy menu’s, the entire site was designed to be viewed at much higher resolution. Read the rest of this entry »
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