Work On Your Crib: Protect Your Computer

Much has been made, properly, of such threats to your computer as spyware, adware, viruses, and people glomming onto your Wi-Fi. Less often mentioned is actual theft of the computer, which is obviously made more of a risk by the fact that your laptop typically has to take a little trip on its own at airport security. The Internet has shown its special worth in many applications: stock trading disintermediation (despite my own mixed results), computer dating (ditto), etc. I discovered recently from an article in the New York Times that there is another excellent use: allowing your purloined computer to stealthily email its location when it is connected to the Internet. PCPhoneHome