Prey: open source software to recover your stolen laptop

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Also check out http://github.com/tomas/prey

This came to my attention two weeks too late for me :(

Has anyone used it? This is exactly the sort of thing that I'd like to install as soon as my insurance pays out. That and an encrypted FS.

It's a shame that it took someone to steal my stuff for me to realise how necessary this is.

Last night I spoke with the creator of Prey, he told me thousands of people are using it and that about two days ago they had an awesome case here in Chile where they got a lot of info about the robber, including name, email, msn account, picture and other relevant data.

On github: http://github.com/tomas/prey/

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