Blanket Discovery for Stolen Laptops

Blanket Discovery for Stolen Laptops
Mark Rasch, 2007-03-12

Mark Rasch discusses the legal issues behind the discovery and recovery of stolen laptops that use LoJack-style homing devices to announce their location, and the location of the thieves, anywhere in the world.

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Blanket Discovery for Stolen Laptops 2007-03-12
Matthew Murphy

Two Jobs Mark? 2007-03-12
Anonymous (1 replies)

Re: Two Jobs Mark? 2007-03-14
Mark D. Rasch

Blanket Discovery for Stolen Laptops 2007-03-13
James Smith

Blanket Discovery for Stolen Laptops 2007-03-14
Alastair

Blanket Discovery for Stolen Laptops 2007-03-14
Kaasie

Blanket Discovery for Stolen Laptops 2007-03-19
Anonymous

This also lends itself to leaving courts out completely. Someone could come up with a service providing GPS location services like those of cell phones. If such a solution were tied to operational functionality of the laptop (like every hour it phones home or the hardware locks itself down) then you could completely avoid the issue entirely. People willing to install Lo-Jack software would also be willing to install hardware IMO.

This sounds like a business opportunity for someone.

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Blanket Discovery for Stolen Laptops 2007-03-21
Anonymous

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Anonymous

what about wireless mac addrs? 2007-04-13
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