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April 10, 2006
Computer cafes, SF, Shanghai
Computer cafes, SF, Shanghai: The San Francisco Chronicle has an article today about people forcibly robbed of their computers while using the wifi in a local cafe... 70 incidents so far this year. "Where else do you have a thousand-dollar item sitting on a table in a coffee shop?" For some reason I thought of this story from two years ago, where internet cafes in Shanghai installed cameras to watch people using the cafe's computers. But for laptop theft in general, it seems like it should be easy to install a pinging routine or even a keylogger or auto-webcam onto your own machine, so that when it's connected to the internet it can send a message back to you... have you heard of any utilities along these lines yet? (If you're in SF, the robberies seemed neighborhood-dependent, with the majority taking place in one high-crime section of the city... probably just a few perps, doesn't seem widespread.)
Posted by John Dowdell at April 10, 2006 8:02 AM
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