Laptop Screaming for Help Sends Thieves to Prison

Nowadays, thieves steal laptops. It's like an unwritten rule, but adopted by lots of thieves out there. Just think that many people were seriously affected after laptops containing their private information were stolen from officials who were working on them. And these are only the reported cases, there are probably thousands of similar thefts which remained anonymous due to the fact that they were considered to be ordinary cases. However, it may seem like laptop thefts are now coming to an end: a notebook screaming for help and sending valuable information to its owner.

Wow, that sounds amazing, but how is it possible? Well, it's not quite "screaming" because Absolute Software has developed a hardware-based tracking device which is meant to be installed on notebooks and notify a specified host of their locations and providing a lot of other details.

This is exactly what happened a few days ago when, according to NetworkWorld, three people got arrested after having stolen a laptop. The story is pretty funny: a laptop equipped with the solution provided by Absolute Software got stolen and then sold to somebody else for $350. Only that "somebody else" connected the laptop to the Internet in order to access MySpace, which allowed it to send information to the master server.

Once the police got the details, they raided the thieves' house and, besides the stolen laptop, they also recovered other devices which were reported to be robbed.

Absolute Software explains that its technology helped in the recovery of many other stolen laptops and the company is now taking an important step in protecting people's notebooks: an agreement with Intel in order to equip the Centrino series with this innovative solution. You can find more information about the partnership here.