FBI Inventory reveals 184 Missing Laptops, they should have used RC5 to track them!

[Train]

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<< In all 184 laptops are missing, including 13 believed to have been stolen, officials said. They said that in addition to one computer known to have contained classified information, three other missing machines might also have had classified material. >>

 

[Stub]

uh oh, the state of georgia better step in and use their mad computer sleuthing skillz to find those computers!!!

 

[Cenalian]

If the FBI was at all smart, they would have installed call-home software on those laptops and probably have a majority of them back right now....

For those that don't know, call-home software is a way to stop laptop theft. Once activated, if the laptop modem is plugged into a wall jack, it calls a home office of a security office and lets them know where it is to within 100 metres (possibly ANY net connection now, even high-speed). So basically, if you steal one of these laptops, you can't use it for the net.

And no, formatting won't work. I believe on some of them it is etched into a chip... can't quite remember the exact details, but its basically impossible to remove it (changing HDs won't work either)

But again, never give the government credit for doing something smart... I mean, that protection could cost them valueble money that they can be using to give themselves raises!!

 

[Train]

I was reffering to using the perproxy tracking to find it, which has been used before to return stolen laptops.

 

[Eponymous]

Now was this before or after the story about what's-his-names girlfriend using the laptop as a heating pad? 😉

 

[burnedout]

FBI Inventory reveals 184 Missing Laptops, they should have used RC5 to track them!

Excellent idea.

All those buracrats could be doing something useful for a change. Aside from senseless prosecutions and the like.

Today is my annual G-Men bashing day, BTW.