Track Your Missing Notebook with Pombo

[ Thanks to Dmitri
Popov for this link. ]

“The key component of the Pombo solution is a tiny
Python script that runs on your notebook. The script runs quietly
in the background and collects tracking information such as the IP
address and information about all network interfaces as well as
information about nearby wireless access points. In addition to
that, the script can take a screenshot using the scrot tool and
capture a snapshot with the notebook’s webcam using the streamer
utility. The script then packs, encrypts, and uploads the tracking
information to a destination server.

“To get Pombo running on your notebook, you have to install the
required packages. On Ubuntu and its derivatives, this can be done
using the sudo apt-get install traceroute scrot pngnq streamer
command. Next step is to generate a public key. To do this, run the
gpg –gen-key command and follow the directions.”

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