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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
If such a discovery process is to work, the first requirement would be that the software utilize a two-way handshake of some kind with the stolen wares. Otherwise, simple IP spoofing could be used to justify a discovery-driven fishing expedition into customer records. As the FBI now knows from exp...

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