Password Recovery from stolen hard drive

[Kipton Moravec]

On Wed, 2010-04-14 at 20:52 +0100, Mike Yates wrote:
> On Tue, 13 Apr 2010 17:31:18 -0700 Ray Parrish wrote:
> 
> > Well, the idea assumes a couple of things, the first of which is that 
> > the thief has to be smart enough to change your password, and then must 
> > boot the computer into Ubuntu, and then must then connect the computer 
> > to the internet.
> >
> > . Once that was done, a script added to the boot up scripts could use 
> > sendmail to send an email using your email account, which would then 
> > give you the ip address it was connected to.
> >
> > I'm not sure if I even have sendmail on here yet, so it may be while 
> > before I get around to writing this script, as I have other irons in the 
> > fire burning pretty hot right now.
> >
> >
> >   
> Actually, I have been putting scripts like this onto laptops for some years.
> I won't paste one here here because they differ a lot.
> They need to operate at boot-time, not log-in, so the best plan is to 
> ping e.g download.microsoft.com (I don't mind annoying them, Maxime!) 
> every thirty seconds until successful, then email yourself using direct 
> smtp to your ISP's MX pointer, not via a smarthost, the usual default, 
> which will not work from a different ISP.
> It is almost as easy to do that in Windoze as in Linux, installing it as 
> a service and using bmail.exe, Craig Peacock's clever command-line 
> mailer. In Linux, you need different arguments to the mail command, 
> depending if you have Exim, Sendmail, etc. to avoid the smarthost. There 
> is no need to get the external IP as the headers reveal that.
> 
> I have to admit that none of my installations have been stolen, AFAIK, 
> but it was quite useful to track errant company salesmen!
> 
> -- 
> Mike Yates           Frome   Somerset   England
> 
> 
> 

What about setting up dyndns.com account which will know its IP address
whenever it is on the Internet?

Kip

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