LOCK YOUR LAPTOP

There are plenty of commercially available options for laptop protection to choose from. But now, there's a free, open source product called Adeona.

Named after the Roman goddess of safe returns, Adeona is the brainchild of combined research efforts at the University of Washington an the University of California, San Diego. Adeona uses the Internet like a homing beacon. You install the software, and then the laptop occasionally sends its IP address and related information to a free, online storage network called OpenDHT. This information can be used to determine the computer's location.

The main difference here is that you're not turning over your
laptop's location information to a company. The researchers say that the Adeona system scrambles the information, and that it can then only be deciphered using a password known only to the person who set up the account. Hence, only the only can access the information, and can take that information to the police to help trace it. That way, even if OpenDHT got hacked, your information is still encrypted.

For Mac users: Adeona can use the internal camera to take a photo and send it to the OpenDHT server. That, of course, might capture an image of the thief.

-- iPhone owners are already asking for an app of their own :)

Download Adeona(for Windows) Here!

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