Comments on: Phone Home Script to Protect Your Laptop http://www.techyouruniverse.com/technology/phone-home-script-to-protect-your-laptop Musings about technology from a Geek Tue, 06 Jan 2009 08:54:52 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.1 By: Dave Gullo http://www.techyouruniverse.com/technology/phone-home-script-to-protect-your-laptop#comment-872 Dave Gullo Fri, 06 Jun 2008 15:03:57 +0000 http://www.techyouruniverse.com/technology/phone-home-script-to-protect-your-laptop#comment-872 Yeah, Leo Laporte was talking about that on the radio this morning. A person got their camera gear stolen, and the camera had some type of auto-upload functionality to her Fickr or Picassa over wifi. The thieves were caught because of hundreds of pictures they took of themselves. While LoJack for laptops is nothing new, you take it to a whole new "roll-your-own" level. ... regarding software: when people say why don't you just use "X", I say, because I wrote "Y"... Yeah, Leo Laporte was talking about that on the radio this morning. A person got their camera gear stolen, and the camera had some type of auto-upload functionality to her Fickr or Picassa over wifi. The thieves were caught because of hundreds of pictures they took of themselves. While LoJack for laptops is nothing new, you take it to a whole new "roll-your-own" level.

… regarding software: when people say why don’t you just use "X", I say, because I wrote "Y"…

]]> By: mike http://www.techyouruniverse.com/technology/phone-home-script-to-protect-your-laptop#comment-870 mike Fri, 06 Jun 2008 04:45:40 +0000 http://www.techyouruniverse.com/technology/phone-home-script-to-protect-your-laptop#comment-870 It sounds pretty cool, but the idea of blindly executing the contents of a script, even on a server you control, kinda scares the crap out of me. Maybe put in some shared key signing or something? I don't know, it just seems like a potentially big hole. It sounds pretty cool, but the idea of blindly executing the contents of a script, even on a server you control, kinda scares the crap out of me. Maybe put in some shared key signing or something? I don’t know, it just seems like a potentially big hole.

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