Adeona
The biggest fear for laptop owners (including me) is losing it to a thief. Laptops, though they’re slowly turning into necessities like mobile phones, are still expensive. My own Neo laptop is cheap compared to laptop models like Dell, Acer, Asus, and Apple but still, I spent more than P30, 000 for this unit and I don’t want to even think of losing it.
Adeona, an open source software, offers a solution to this very problem. Windows and Mac users can install this software on their units and it works by tracking the geo-location of your IP address. Adeona works by:
using state-of-the-art cryptographic mechanisms to ensure that the owner is the only party that can use the system to reveal the locations visited by a device.
using a community-based remote storage facility, ensuring retrievability of recent location updates
With the mac users, Adeona can even capture pictures of the thieves using the mac’s isight feature. As for the rest of us let’s hope Adeona soon offers the same feature for Windows and Linux users.
I have no idea how often laptops are stolen here in the Philippines, but I’m fairly sure it’s happening here, so better be safe than sorry, right? And hey, it’s free so don’t worry.
Read and download Adeona Open Source here.
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