Cool. Thanks. It seemed to obvious for someone not to be doing this.
Now someone should offer a version to cover the other 96% of the world's
PCs.
Competition is good.
len
From: Stefan Tilkov [mailto:]
http://orbicule.com/undercover/
But it's a great idea, I agree :-)
Stefan
On Feb 26, 2007, at 3:39 PM, Len Bullard wrote:
> There is a story in USA Today about a user of the SETI Home
> application that
> used it to find his wife's stolen computer. Since the SETI app
> wakes up
> from time to time and phones home, maybe this is a business software
> business. Sell a small self-installed app and a service that
> listens for
> computers to phone home, checks against the valid address, and
> automatically
> sends email to the owner if it varies from the approved/registered
> list.
>
> Seems simple, desirable and effective. It works for rental cars.
>
> len
