ChurchMedic

Recently, a friend of mine had an interesting experience - (he blogged about it - so guess I can share).

as Chuck Russel, Jason Reynolds, David Helbig, and Clif Guy discussed Internet Campus while enjoying a beautiful night on the beach just a couple hundred feet away in the beach parking lot, Jason’s car window was smashed and Clif’s briefcase/laptop bag was stolen containing his laptop, digital camera, web cam, cables, and all kinds of personal items.

Recently I purchased a Mac Powerbook Pro - and I absolutely love this machine…  I think I might need to start attending a 12 step program as I sleep with this thing, take it to church with me (ok so I use it while preaching…) and it has even made the occasional trip to the bathroom with me… it would be devastating for me to loose this or have it stolen.

I looked into purchasing the LoJack software until I read a quick tidbit on BitBud’s blog about encryption for our servers, files, laptops etc… as well as Adeona - a free Open Source LoJack software.

Adeona is the first Open Source system for tracking the location of your lost or stolen laptop that does not rely on a proprietary, central service.  Whats nice is its 3 primary properties:

• Private: Adeona uses state-of-the-art cryptographic mechanisms to ensure that the owner is the only party that can use the system to reveal the locations visited by a device.
• Reliable: Adeona uses a community-based remote storage facility, ensuring retrievability of recent location updates.
• Open source and free: Adeona’s software is licensed under GPLv2. While your locations are secret, the tracking system’s design is not.

The Mac OS X version also has an option to capture pictures of the laptop user or thief using the built-in iSight camera and the freeware tool isightcapture.

So what are you waiting for?   LoJack your hardware !