Stolen laptops phone home

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It seems your whereabouts should be easy to get:
"When a stolen machine is connected to the internet it will contact a monitoring center to report its IP address, allowing police to trace its location through the internet service provider"
how does your machine know it is stolen? It doesn't, the company just filters ip addresses (more likely MAC addresses), looking for machines reported stolen.
SO..no worries UNLESS we get an administration in power with contempt for the Constitution and individual rights, an administration which wants warrantless seraches and rendition to countries which practice torture, an administration willing to pressure companies for their records and companies willing to roll over ...DOH!!

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