last100.com — USB Drives can contain important information, such as personal details or business secrets. GadgetTrak have developed a software system that can be installed onto supported USB devices, which they claim provides a means of tracking those devices, in the event they are stolen or lost.
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mrspinSep 4, 2007
Interesting response from the company, after this fairly negative review!
colinmSep 4, 2007
I just create a text file in the root directory called "owner.txt" with my email address in, use TrueCrypt and back it up regularly.
Closed AccountSep 4, 2007
Is it just me or does cloning and, perhaps, improving this seem quickly achievable (as in "Hmm. I can make a highly-caffeinated day of this.")?I'm afraid I haven't programmed since Visual Basic in high school. While that was only three years ago, I probably shouldn't talk in great length on the subject for fear it may appear to be coming from my arse. Still, from what I've been trying to teach myself about bash* scripting and, what I'm told about C / C++... this seems like a quick project.+ The need for their servers could be replaced by use of a database engine such as SQLite. This eliminates the need for someone else to maintain a database of what hardware you own. No 'I put on my robe and tinfoil hat' but privacy is privacy.+ A script that, upon execution, gathers and sends some data (IP and what-not) to my server. (I'd settle for raw data direct to my e-mail but I'd also want to create a second, web-based e-mail for use. This would be because e-mail address would need to be included somewhere in the script)+ Output, of course, of the data in a meaningful manner. e.g. location of the thieving bastards via Google Maps, Google Earth, Yahoo Maps or any other flavor. Whether to provide me with the information via E-mail or SMS. Etcetera.This is just a thought. No insult to the GadgetTrak software or its creator(s) but I'm left feeling as though if I owned a copy of VB I could jog my memory up enough to mock up a 99.9% functional (though fugly) clone... Probably not resource friendly or very clean but this seems a quick-to-do for the slightly-more-than slightly-more-than-average computer user.***I have been learning Bash. I'll admit my laziness to *learn* GNU-Linux ended after running Noobuntu (XFCE flavored on the zd800) but I've been using Linux since my "Slacktop" (an old Compaq Presario 1230). Without Linux it'd be an industrial paperweight as I refuse to run anything older (or newer x_x) than WinXP.**And again... I don't rank myself there at this time... I've gotten lazy having not learned a real programming language or any new languages in general.
acceptab1eunameSep 4, 2007
Busted.<a class="user" href="http://digg.com/users/sohyunw/news/dugg">http://digg.com/users/sohyunw/news/dugg</a><a class="user" href="http://digg.com/users/sohyunw/news/commented">http://digg.com/users/sohyunw/news/commented</a>
ronaldmcdonaldSep 4, 2007
Wow congratulations Sherlock. Here is a cookie. Jesus, I thought I had too much free time.
sohyunwSep 16, 2007
So how does that have the device phone home when someone steals it.
godnewsJan 21, 2008
When I used to use a single thumb drive to ferry files between macintoshes specifically, I used to place about 5 megs worth of computer viruses, spyware, and adware on them in an autorun directory that was hidden. It never got lost, but it would have been some consolation if it was ever stolen, or found and not returned. I never carried anything too crazy on there, just documents, nothing top secret, and no pr0ns. Now thatI'm less spiteful/forgetful, I just use a normal thumbdrive and don't lose it. <a class="user" href="http://games.gwafi.com/cat1.html">http://games.gwafi.com/cat1.html</a> <a class="user" href="http://games.gwafi.com/cat6.html">http://games.gwafi.com/cat6.html</a> <a class="user" href="http://games.gwafi.com/cat5.html">http://games.gwafi.com/cat5.html</a> <a class="user" href="http://games.gwafi.com/cat7.html">http://games.gwafi.com/cat7.html</a>