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• What they meant by "broadcast", I hope, is not network broadcasting in networking terms. It would likely send its public IP address to a server the user owns or something as simple as email if the user hasn't verified his possession recently. The idea is you'd get regular notices, by email for instance, as to where it was being used.
  
  This is how LoJack works, the difference being that LoJack can be nearly impossible to remove if it was purchased with a new computer. They have integrated LoJack with the BIOS of some new laptops so that it keeps installing itself on new OS installs. This one, being open-source and user installable could be removed by a simple OS reload. ...though in reality you'd hope your thief wasn't computer savvy. In reply to: "An open-source approach to tracking stolen laptops"

  August 24, 2008

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