How to recover your stolen laptop
What do you do if someone steals your computer and its precious data that comprises your work life? Tracking services such as LoJack for laptops and GadgetTrak come in handy. You install an application on your laptop, and if it is stolen, these services can help track down and try to recover your computer or at least disable it so the thief cannot access the contents of the hard drive. Most of these services require a monthly or annual subscription fee, ranging from $20 to $60 a year. For the budget conscious there are few free, open-source options for tracking a stolen laptop. Apart from the price tag, one reason you might want to use an open-source tracker over commercial product is that you can examine the code to ensure it is not doing anything shady with your private data, and compile it yourself. How reliable and stable are these tracking services? With a well established company, you can feel pretty sure it will be around in two...