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

@Shane
No, there was no auto-password for any websites on my browser (with the
possible exception of my Netflix account...). So no, they won't have access
to my Email/Banks/etc. There is actual little to no sensitive data on the
laptop, but unfortunately I have no backup of the data, which includes all
of my work from college.
As far as other software goes, there was not much since I recently
re-formatted the system to dual boot Windows XP (default) and Ubuntu. Very
unlikely that they will get into my Ubuntu partition, since it is password
protected. My XP login is open. As I recall, the only non-system programs
that I have set to run on startup are Dropbox and Microsoft Security
Essentials (Antivirus). uTorrent might also be set to load up on boot... and
if so it may have been seeding some files for a little while while it was
turned on.

I will let you know if I remember anything else worthwhile. Unfortunately,
Dropbox hasn't synced up with my laptop again since that morning on 9/17.
Hopefully it means it was turned on at a Pawn Shop and it is waiting there
safely for me to find. Hopefully it doesn't mean that the thief wiped my
HD.

@Everyone
Thanks again for all the help/ideas/suggestions. I still have had no luck
retrieving anything that was stolen (my laptop bag also contained an
engagement ring for my girlfriend and my checkbook, along w/ a few other
random tools/cables/etc). I gave the information about the Dropbox sync and
IP address to the police, was told that they'd pass it on to their
Cyber-Crime division. I have not heard back from them.

The thief also forged themselves a check using my checkbook, so hopefully
that will help track them down as well (if anyone knows how to figure out
where a check was cashed using the stamp on the back of a processed check,
please let me know). Wells Fargo failed to prevent the funds from being
drawn from my account (even though I reported the incident while the check
was still pending...), and now I'm working with their fraud department to
resolve the matter. So far they seem very slow and disorganized.

I too stumbled across the Prey Project that was mentioned earlier by Ted (a
friend told me about Undercover for Macs, and I was looking around for an
open-source alternative). I am definitely going to look into that software
when I have a laptop to call my own again (whether my stolen one returns or
I get a new one). I would recommend that other people look into it as well,
it could save a lot of headache later on down the road.

Bottom line: losing your laptop sucks major ass.

On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 12:02 PM, Shane R. Spencer <shane@bogomip.com>wrote:

> I read the thread.. what other software did you have on the system? Also
> is your mail
> auto-password enabled? I.E. are they reading this right now?
>
> - Shane
>
> On 09/17/2010 01:42 PM, 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
> >
> >
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