2009 Laptop Theft Expected To Skyrocket
According to the FBI’s National Crime Information Center, the number of reported laptop thefts continues to rise, with a 48% incease over the last two years, from 73,700 to almost 109,000. The number of reported mobile phone robberies jumped 33% over the same period, from 60,100 to nearly 80,300. In the past three years, theft of Apple (nasdaq: AAPL - news -
Adeona We Have A Problem - Open Source Theft Recovery Broken
Adeona is an open source project from the University of Washington that utilzies a way of tracking laptops if they are stolen using OpenDHT servers to store data in an unencrypted format. The project was originally a research project that was launched a few months ago, however it has had some serious problems. The application was very popular as it was free, thousands have downloaded and installed the software thinking that it will protect their