{"id":641,"date":"2007-02-04T22:09:02","date_gmt":"2007-02-04T20:09:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/2007\/02\/04\/laptop-stolen-phoning-home\/"},"modified":"2007-02-22T14:44:37","modified_gmt":"2007-02-22T12:44:37","slug":"laptop-stolen-phoning-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/sciencesurf\/2007\/02\/laptop-stolen-phoning-home\/","title":{"rendered":"Laptop stolen &#8211; phoning home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists are frequent travellers &#8211; hopefully you have always your harddisk <a href=\"http:\/\/www.securityfocus.com\/infocus\/1186\">encrypted<\/a>. There are many companies that offer to trace your computer like Computrace(R), zTrace(R), LapTrak(R), BoomerangIt(R), LoJack(R) and PC-Guardian(R). Save your $\/\u20ac for your next experiment, here is the trick: During the next boot your laptop will send out a http request to any server you like. You simply need to watch the server logfile if your stolen laptop is phoning home&#8230;<br \/>\nFor installation please download <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/scripts\/LaptopService.cmd\">LaptopService.cmd<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/scripts\/LaptopService.reg\">LaptopService.reg<\/a> and two small binaries from the <a href=\"ttp:\/\/www.tacktech.com\/pub\/microsoft\/service\/srvany.zip \">windows ressource kit<\/a>. Adjust path and server name before running <em>LaptopService.cmd<\/em>. Voil\u00c3\u00a0, that&#8217;s it &#8211; for a good joke look at <a href=\"http:\/\/science.slashdot.org\/article.pl?sid=07\/02\/21\/2326240&#038;from=rss\">Slashdot<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>|wj_LaptopService.cmd|<\/p>\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"bottom-note\">\n  <span class=\"mod1\">CC-BY-NC Science Surf , accessed 06.04.2026<\/span>\n <\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists are frequent travellers &#8211; hopefully you have always your harddisk encrypted. There are many companies that offer to trace your computer like Computrace(R), zTrace(R), LapTrak(R), BoomerangIt(R), LoJack(R) and PC-Guardian(R). Save your $\/\u20ac for your next experiment, here is the trick: During the next boot your laptop will send out a http request to any &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/sciencesurf\/2007\/02\/laptop-stolen-phoning-home\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Laptop stolen &#8211; phoning home<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,9],"tags":[2949,40,655,657,656],"class_list":["post-641","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-joke-fun","category-computer-software","tag-computer-software","tag-fun-nothing-else","tag-frequent_travellers","tag-lojack","tag-stolen_laptop"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/641","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=641"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/641\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}