PREY project would not allow the thief to sneak out with your leptopom (added)

If you often work outside the home or office with your leptopom, then it's time to think about what will happen if it's someone you want to lead.

Help find stolen leptop help Prey - a free program that will show the location of your lost favorite. Of the stated features, are the most interesting are:

- The program is open points wi-fi and "ticking off" on them about their location;

- it can use the built-in GPS unit and trying to determine the geo-location of the access point;

- it can remove the face kidnapper built-in webcam!

- may make a loud sound that will help catch a thief at an early stage of the abduction;

- can take screenshots of what happens on a stolen leptope, as well as writing a log of visited web pages, and a list of newly created files;

- The program is written in bash, and therefore does not suffer from the compatibility problems running really quietly;

- The program is very flexible in configuration and can be operated with a user-friendly web interface, and by e-mail;

In fact, the resident program will now ping Prey server every 20 minutes (you can change the interval) and check whether the missing leptopa mode is activated.

The program is so wonderful that even the theft of a loved leptopa can become for you like a detective adventure;)

That's the first report looked after myself at led his Macbook Pro:

1. I came e-mail, stating that the surveillance began:

2. 5 minutes later I was told a lot of interesting things, determining my location to an accuracy of ± 50 meters, although no GPS in your computer I do not have!

3. I made my photos, not issuing a camera work! (Usually zelenenky flame burns)

4. made quality a screenshot of my desktop (I have lowered the quality of the specially for articles) :)

5. I got scared and turned off the surveillance regime for a thief !!!

Thieves do not envy :)

By the way, working PREY on Windows, Mac and Linux.

Prey Project

ADDED

Apartment of IT-specialist Greg Martin (Greg Martin), who previously worked with the FBI and NASA, in London's West Kensington was robbed by hooligans last week during the riots. The kidnappers, among other things, took a laptop MacBook Pro, owned by Martin. Police conducted the necessary investigations, but could not find the robbers.
However, the specialist managed to put on your laptop special tracking program for the device Prey. "Two days later, on my e-mail message arrived that the notebook is activated. More than two hours I watched the online activity of the thief, and he eventually went on his own page in Facebook »-! Martin says.

As a result, experts have found a resourceful thief's name, school where he studied, the address in west London, as well as information about its Internet connection. Also, with the built-in web camera laptop managed to get some pictures of the perpetrator.
Martin handed over all the information of London Police, which in turn raided the suspect's apartment and found a stolen computer. 18-year-old thief Sohil Halilfar (Soheil Khalilfar) appear before the court on Friday, said police spokesman newspaper.

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