Laptop Security (Mac)

DavidTODavidTO Registered Users, Retired Mod Posts: 19,160 Major grins
edited October 8, 2005 in Digital Darkroom
Has any used either of these apps for recovering a lost or stole iBook/Powerbook? Do you know of a good alternative? Do these kinds of apps work at all?

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  • AndyAndy Registered Users Posts: 50,016 Major grins
    edited October 8, 2005
    DavidTO wrote:
    Has any used either of these apps for recovering a lost or stole iBook/Powerbook? Do you know of a good alternative? Do these kinds of apps work at all?

    LapCop

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  • colourboxcolourbox Registered Users Posts: 2,095 Major grins
    edited October 8, 2005
    I used LapCop for a while but the way it worked (at least back then) was to send out a periodic beacon to their server identifying the PowerBook and its network location. I took a closer look and saw that my name and address was in there. Understandable, but I was uncomfortable with that so I stopped using it. The concept is fine but at least the version I used, I wish they had used a less revealing unique identifier. It may work in a better way now so you might want to check with them.

    If there is no easy way to get my PowerBook back I'll let insurance replace it with a current model. The hardware is easily replaceable. The only concerns are that the personal data be secured (not accessible to a thief) and recently backed up. As long as that's true, I can restore data to any other Mac I can get my hands on. Sensitive files are stored on an encrypted disk image on the laptop.
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