[dundee] Prey Tracker

[Iain]

I had a look at prey middle of the year after reading an article about it in
one of the Linux magazines.
I had thought about using it for my work and to monitor the laptops as we
have a lot off site.

It looked very good. And had that nice feature of using the inbuilt webcam
to take pictures of people if the you had marked the laptop as
stolen/missing.

Iain

-----Original Message-----
From: dundee-bounces at lists.lug.org.uk
[mailto:dundee-bounces at lists.lug.org.uk] On Behalf Of Rick Moynihan
Sent: 27 November 2010 01:20
To: Tayside Linux User Group
Subject: Re: [dundee] Prey Tracker

On 26 November 2010 12:17, azmodie <azmodie at gmail.com> wrote:
> Prey lets you keep track of your phone or laptop at all times, and will
help
> you find it if it ever gets lost or stolen. It's lightweight, open source
> software, and free for anyone to use. And it just works.
>
> http://preyproject.com/

I've not used either... but Adeona does the same kind of thing but
with a serverless architecture, making use of a privacy preserving
DHT.  Unfortunately opendht has been closed, so adeona is temporarily
not functioning but it's the more interesting approach:

http://adeona.cs.washington.edu/

R.

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