{"id":1341,"date":"2011-05-26T09:37:18","date_gmt":"2011-05-26T15:37:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thepizzy.net\/blog\/?p=1341"},"modified":"2011-05-26T09:37:18","modified_gmt":"2011-05-26T15:37:18","slug":"idea-location-announcing-security-system-for-computers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepizzy.net\/blog\/2011\/05\/idea-location-announcing-security-system-for-computers\/","title":{"rendered":"IDEA: Location Announcing Security System for Computers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"1342\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/thepizzy.net\/blog\/2011\/05\/idea-location-announcing-security-system-for-computers\/map_location1\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thepizzy.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/map_location1.jpg?fit=500%2C332&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"500,332\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"map_location1\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thepizzy.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/map_location1.jpg?fit=500%2C332&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-1342\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thepizzy.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/map_location1-300x199.jpg?resize=300%2C199\" alt=\"Source: visionmobile.com\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thepizzy.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/map_location1.jpg?resize=300%2C199&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thepizzy.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/map_location1.jpg?resize=150%2C99&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thepizzy.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/map_location1.jpg?w=500&amp;ssl=1 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>I know there are ideas like this, but this is just another way to approach the issue.<\/p>\n<p>I want to create a &#8220;Security Virus&#8221; (a virus, in that it can&#8217;t easily be removed\/disabled) that when the computer is turned on tries to ping a known locally-hosted IP and verify the MAC address of the target. If it can&#8217;t verify\/ping the target, it disables any usage of the UI, sends location data through Google Chrome, Firefox, or IE9&#8217;s location sharing capability to the owner&#8217;s email, and then turns itself off.<\/p>\n<p>It would be even better on laptops with a 3G\/Mobile data plan that it could automatically connect to in order to send the location data.<\/p>\n<p>The purpose would be to help recover stolen computers. I know there are location-aware services for mobile devices and creative people have been able to recover stolen computers that have stupidly been put on the network. I&#8217;m also sure there are some pitfalls to this idea&#8230;what do you think?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Taking another approach to location-announcing computer security systems using features of modern browsers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1342,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3,15],"tags":[887,888,886,889,200],"class_list":["post-1341","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tech","category-thought_experiments","tag-computer-security","tag-location-announcing","tag-location-awareness","tag-modern-browsers","tag-security"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thepizzy.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/map_location1.jpg?fit=500%2C332&ssl=1","jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/prOO4-lD","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepizzy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1341","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepizzy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepizzy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepizzy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepizzy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1341"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/thepizzy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1341\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1346,"href":"https:\/\/thepizzy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1341\/revisions\/1346"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepizzy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1342"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepizzy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepizzy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepizzy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}