The University of Washington has released a free software to track if your laptop is stolen. If the computer comes with a built-in camera, it will even send you a photo of the perpetrator at the keyboard.
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.
Available for Linux, Windows XP/Vista and Mac OS X. (Via Freakanomics)
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