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    #11
    Originally posted by stek View Post
    I'm thinking of taking up thievery as a career then!

    Come on, who lives where and what have you got?
    I live in Donacaster and I have a time machine.

    Threaded.
    "Being nice costs nothing and sometimes gets you extra bacon" - Pondlife.

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      #12
      There's a few story's of people using the tracking software, but yet the federales won't do anything about it
      Originally posted by Stevie Wonder Boy
      I can't see any way to do it can you please advise?

      I want my account deleted and all of my information removed, I want to invoke my right to be forgotten.

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        #13
        Pondlife,

        I run Check Point Full Disc encryption - EAL 4 approved full disc encryption with AES 256. no notable performance degradation or time machine backups. Provides a nice fuzzy feeling that data is safe when Mac book is in transit.

        Full Disk Encryption | Check Point Software

        Regards

        Simon.

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          #14
          Success story for Hidden: This Guy Has My MacBook

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            #15
            Thanks all.

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              #16
              Little update (not that anyone cares )

              Seems most of what hidden does can be done manually for free using the following;
              Code:
              MYIP=`curl -s 'http://checkip.dyndns.org' | sed 's/.*Current IP Address: \([0-9\.\.]*\).*/\1/g'`
              echo $MYIP
              to get your public IP add

              download a little app called imagesnap to take a camera shot using the command line

              and finally screencapture -S for a full screenshot.

              Now I need to script it for guest logins and whack all the outputs into a dropbox directory

              Simples

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                #17
                This is pretty good and is free for up to 3 devices

                Open source anti-theft solution for Mac, PCs & Phones – Prey

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                  #18
                  This Guy Has My MeerKat
                  Originally posted by Stevie Wonder Boy
                  I can't see any way to do it can you please advise?

                  I want my account deleted and all of my information removed, I want to invoke my right to be forgotten.

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                    #19
                    If it's a desk top I'm told this works quite well.

                    PC Security | phildowd.com
                    "Being nice costs nothing and sometimes gets you extra bacon" - Pondlife.

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                      #20
                      Done

                      create a plist file to run this script from start up using lingon.
                      if it's not you sat in front of the screen it takes a piccy, a screenshot and if connected to tinternet, your IP, then ftps to a server. it then checks if dropbox is running and if not, starts it.

                      It mutes the volume when screen grabbing so you can't here the click - although the green light does come on briefly.

                      Happy if someone who knows what they are doing picks holes in it as this is more n exercise in technical than anything else. For some reason Dropbox doesn't seem to sync when started this way.

                      Code:
                      #!/bin/bash
                      myuser="pondy"
                      mydir=/Users/$myuser/Dropbox/stolen
                      myarc=/Users/$myuser/Documents/archive
                      mydate=$(date +"%d-%b-%y-%H-%M")
                      
                      #  Find out console User
                      localuser=`who | grep console`
                      consoleusr=${localuser%% *}
                      
                      if [[ -n $consoleusr ]]
                       then
                       echo $consoleusr-is-here
                       	if [[ $consoleusr != $myuser ]]
                       	 then
                      	 echo "User not $myuser"
                      	 
                       	 # Mute, take snapshot and screengrap then put vol back
                       	 curvol=`osascript -e "output volume of (get volume settings)"`
                       	 osascript -e "set volume output volume 0"
                        	 /Users/$myuser/Dropbox/Imagesnap/imagesnap $mydir/$mydate.img.jpg
                        	 Screencapture -S $mydir/$mydate.scrn.jpg
                      	 osascript -e "set volume output volume $curvol"
                      	
                       	 # Check for WAN connection
                       	 myip=`curl -s 'http://checkip.dyndns.org' | sed 's/.*Current IP Address: \([0-9\.\.]*\).*/\1/g'`
                           echo "checking IP"
                        		 if [ $myip ]
                         		  #  Write external IP add
                         		  then echo $myip-at-$mydate-by-$consoleusr+$dropcheck >> $mydir/myip.txt
                         		  echo $myip
                         		  
                         		  #ftp files to home
                       		  su $myuser -c "/Users/$myuser/scripts/mysftp.sh $mydir"
                                        mv $mydir/*.jpg $myarc/
                                
                         		  # Check if Dropbox is running
                         		  dropcheck=`ps -A | grep Dropbox.app`
                         		  grepdropcheck=`echo $dropcheck | grep MacOS` 
                      
                      		 # Start Dropb box if not running
                          		if [[ $grepdropcheck ]]
                           		 then 
                           		 echo "Dropbox is running"
                           		else
                           		 echo "No dropbox found... Starting Dropbox..."
                           		 su $myuser -c "/Applications/Dropbox.app/Contents/MacOS/Dropbox &"
                          		fi
                         
                         		else 
                         		 echo "no ip"
                          	 echo NoIP-at-$mydate-by+$consoleusr >> $mydir/myip.txt
                        		fi
                       	fi
                      
                      else
                        echo "Noone at console"
                      fi

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