Adeona

Lo-jack your laptop — From Gnomedex: 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. This means that you can install Adeona on your laptop and go — there’s no need to rely on a single third party. What’s more, Adeona addresses a critical privacy goal different from existing commercial offerings. It is privacy-preserving. This means that no one besides the owner (or an agent of the owner’s choosing) can use Adeona to track a laptop. Unlike other systems, users of Adeona can rest assured that no... [Tags: adeona, commercial offerings, critical privacy, gnomedex, laptop]

Track A Stolen Laptop — Developed by University of Washington, Adeona is a free, open source and multiplatform tool which allows you to track the location of your lost or stolen laptop. Below is a quick tutorial to the tool, head to its homepage for more info and downloads. @ haha.nu.... [Tags: adeona, downloads, free open source, laptop, multiplatform]

Adeona Will Help Find Your Stolen or Missing Laptops for free — Adeona is free software to help you track the location of your notebook & desktop computer that may have been lost or stolen. (Shhh.. You may also use this to know the current whereabouts of your spouse via his or her laptop.) Adeona, that weighs less than 3 MB, is currently available for Windows, Mac OS X & Linux but going forward, it can become available for iPhone & Windows Mobile phones also.  The idea is simple - you just install the Adeona client on your laptop and it does the rest. The software runs in the background and... [Tags: adeona, amp, connecting to the internet, desktop computer, external ip address]

Researchers Develop Free Tool to Track Stolen Laptops — Vanishing laptops can cause huge headaches for colleges. Sure, there’s the financial cost of losing a shiny computer, but that’s not the big worry: Since official data such as student records are often loaded onto laptop hard drives, a lost or stolen computer can mean a serious security breach. A free, open-source program developed by researchers can help find a lost or stolen laptop computer, and its creators say it does so more safely than commercial alternatives. The program, Adeona, is named after the Roman goddess of safe returns. Many commercial laptop tracking programs require users to give their information... [Tags: adeona, campuses, colleges, commercial alternatives, creators]

There are currently numerous commercial laptop-tracking solutions, most of which register the laptop with a central server and then report back periodically. Tracking solutions are often used when a laptop is lost or stolen, where users are able to disable the laptop remotely, take a log of user activity or take a photo using a built-in webcam whenever there is unauthorized usage. Adeona is the first free and open source laptop tracking client, and supports most of the common features found in other services. Users download the open source client (for Windows, Mac or Linux) and install, and the... [Tags: adeona, anonimity, bounty system, central server, communication chain]

Open Source Adeona Tracks Lost & Stolen Laptops — An anonymous reader writes "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. This means that you can install Adeona on your laptop and go — there's no need to rely on a single third party. What's more, Adeona addresses a critical privacy goal different from existing commercial offerings. It is privacy-preserving. This means that no one besides the owner (or an agent of the owner's choosing) can use Adeona to track a laptop. Unlike other systems, users of Adeona can rest assured... [Tags: adeona, amp, anonymous reader, commercial offerings, critical privacy]