Adeona is the first Open Source system for tracking the location of your lost or stolen laptop that does not rely on a proprietary, central service. This means that you can install Adeona on your laptop and go — there's no need to rely on a single third party. What's more, Adeona addresses a critical privacy goal different from existing commercial offerings. It is privacy-preserving. This means that no one besides the owner (or an agent of the owner's choosing) can use Adeona to track a laptop. Unlike other systems, users of Adeona can rest assured that no one can abuse the system in order to track where they use their laptop.
Adeona is designed to use the Open Source OpenDHT distributed storage service to store location updates sent by a small software client installed on an owner's laptop. The client continually monitors the current location of the laptop, gathering information (such as IP addresses and local network topology) that can be used to identify its current location. The client then uses strong cryptographic mechanisms to not only encrypt the location data, but also ensure that the ciphertexts stored within OpenDHT are anonymous and unlinkable. At the same time, it is easy for an owner to retrieve location information.
Using Adeona only requires downloading and installing a small software client. Adeona is free to use.
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Nice!
I'll surely install this one when i own a lappy ;-)
Great, but scary!
That means the company knows your location at all times. Well, that's not a concern.
But what could be the way of protection of information? Mostly, it is password? Or say your GPG Key?
Many people may come to know your password. Not hacking, but they can. Like your spouse usually knows it. Then tracking your location is easy.
GPG Key is something a hacker can steal once he's logged in on your machine.
I welcome the technology, but its just too scary that my location is constantly being uploaded. I am scared. I don't know about you!
just wait for my comments! ;)
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