[GRLUG] Cheap Laptop Needed

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Reread my post about how the IP address gives you nothing. You'll be 
hard pressed to get the local PD to put down their donuts long enough to 
try to convince the ISP to give up who that IP was registered to. It is 
simply not worth their time unless the theft was quite large in value.

Even so, a lot of ISP's intentionally try not to have that sort of data 
laying around. So they'll just as likely say "whoops, can't find it." If 
you do get the address info then what if they parked outside a coffee 
shop or some shmuck's house with an unprotected WIFI. You really can't 
count on this route to pan out at all. The only real proof of where the 
device is is if it's got a GPS transponder of some sort and can phone 
back it's location.

> I wouldn't be surprised if modern BIOS could do it.  Heck, many are
> already DHCP and PXE clients.  Why couldn't they send a simple ICMP
> packet?  It's not like there's not enough room for the code.  You can
> get a 2GB USB flash drive for $20 these days.
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> Before anybody asks:
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