download Adeona for tracking your stolen laptop
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Adeona
is the first Open Source system for tracking the location of your lost
or stolen laptop that does not rely on a proprietary, central service.
This
means that you can install Adeona on your laptop and go — there's no
need to rely on a single third party. What's more, Adeona addresses a
critical privacy goal different from existing commercial offerings. It
is privacy-preserving. This means that no one besides the owner (or an
agent of the owner's choosing) can use Adeona to track a laptop. Unlike
other systems, users of Adeona can rest assured that no one can abuse
the system in order to track where they use their laptop.
Adeona
is designed to use the Open Source OpenDHT distributed storage service
to store location updates sent by a small software client installed on
an owner's laptop. The client continually monitors the current location
of the laptop, gathering information (such as IP addresses and local
network topology) that can be used to identify its current location. The
client then uses strong cryptographic mechanisms to not only encrypt
the location data, but also ensure that the ciphertexts stored within
OpenDHT are anonymous and unlinkable. At the same time, it is easy for
an owner to retrieve location information.
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