[Ti] Tibook recovery

[Robert Nicholson]

Thinking about this if there service and technology claims were 
accurate you'd expect to be able to go to their page with your own 
machine and test the location finding software but I don't see any way 
to do that?

ie. see how close it can get to your current location.

On Saturday, January 25, 2003, at 05:18  PM, Adam Boettiger wrote:

>> I remember a few months ago discussing another system for OS X? Is 
>> this
>> the same rebadged or another one?
>>
>> The key to these is just how much they help you make recovery and how
>> with the aid of their information can the authorities recover your
>> machine.
>
> I've found two such services thus far.  The one I listed previously 
> appears
> to be more robust than the other I found, but like you say - how much 
> they
> help you make recovery is critical.  But at least KNOWING which person 
> has
> your unit is a start and better than nothing.  I guess my question is 
> also -
> from a unique IP address can you really identify a specific user or 
> physical
> address or does that only narrow it down to the state/city location 
> and the
> ISP they use?  If it could narrow down to allowing the ISP to ID the 
> user,
> that would make the service quite useful, but then you also get into 
> the
> issue of most ISPs requiring a court order to disclose user identities.
>
> GPS tracking and the "Vinny with da baseball bat" might offer better 
> and
> faster recovery service...<G>
>
> AB
>
>
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