GadgetTrak Anti-Theft Products For Cell Phone, PDA and Mac Theft Recovery
Although not directly USB related, I got a newsletter from GadgetTrak today with some interesting new products that I found quite interesting, I even bought the Mac solution. You may remember GadgetTrak as the provider of the “LoJack for USB devices” with theft recovery software for iPods and other gadgets. Well they are at it again. They now have anti-theft products for cell phones and PDAs as well as Apple computers. The approach with these tools is just slick.
The cell phone and PDA software works by the software detecting if an unauthorized SIM card is put in the phone, at which point is fires of an SMS message to pre-defined numbers with the new phone number and ID numbers that can be used to identify a subscriber via the carrrier.
The Mac software has some pretty rutheless techniques, not only does it email back network data such as IP address etc, but it also hijacks the iSight camera connected to the device and sends a video of the thief to you as well. One other feature I particularly like as well is that it gathers information regarding all of the wireless networks in the area as well.