[aklug] Re: Help - Need to locate GCI IP Address

hah, I like your style Bruce. Thanks for the suggestions and info. I called
GCI, sounds like they can only give out info to the authorities (not
surprisingly) so I guess I'll be enhancing my police report.
On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 5:00 PM, Bruce Hill <bruce@slackwarebox.com> wrote:

> On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 01:42:59PM -0800, K. Savage wrote:
> > My laptop was stolen yesterday morning (9/16/2010). By accessing my
> Dropbox
> > account from a computer at my office, I was able to see that someone
> turned
> > on my laptop this morning (9/17/2010) at around 5 am. This also gave me
> an
> > IP address: 72.42.188.192
> > If someone can help me track down the location of this network I would
> > greatly appreciate it. Or, if anyone has any clever ideas for
> > scripts/programs to load into my Dropbox folder (and therefore, possibly
> my
> > laptop if unwiped and activated again), I would be happy for any
> > suggestions.
> >
> > Thank you for your time,
> >
> > Kyle Savage
>
> Another silly thought - if you can ssh to the box, since you know the IP
> it's on atm, record some file then send it to the computer then play it
> over ssh when they have the comp online again?
>
> mplayer all-ur-base-r-belong-to-us.wav
>
> Hello there, crack smoking laptop theif. We have identified your address
> by the IP address you are using right now. If you don't want the Anchorage
> Police to stick a billy club in your USB port, return the laptop at once!
>
>
> Okay, it's early, I'm tech-ed out and enjoying a lazy Saturday.
>
> Bruce
> --
> "Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the
> lesson afterward. But properly learned, the lesson forever changes
> the man."
>

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Received on Fri Sep 17 17:03:22 2010