You have to be seriously paranoid to put anti-theft software on a desktop computer, but for one lucky (or unlucky, depending on how you look at it) GadgetTrak customer, it turned out to be a good idea.
The iMac laded with the tracking software went missing in New York two weeks ago. Everything went quiet. Then, last wekend, things lit up. The MacTrak software started beaming SOS signals to world in the form of a photo of the new user (sent to Flickr), and the location data, IP address and even the iMac’s position on a Google Map, were sent to New York’s finest, who dropped by and picked up the lost machine.
But you wouldn’t want this running all the time, and giving away your position to some faceless company, right? It appears that MacTrak sits, waiting, and checking to see if you have sounded the alert. If you log in to the web page and give the alarm, only then will the computer start beaming its information out to the world. $25 per year.
GadgetTrak Recovers Stolen iMac In New York [GadgetTrak blog. Thanks, Ken!]
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