[GRLUG] Cheap Laptop Needed

[Michael Mol]

For any sufficiently powerful individual or organization, the police
will do a foxtrot.

Some organizations even have their own bona fide police forces which
are dedicated to their needs.  So an organization like GRCC could
easily direct its police department to take the investigation
seriously.

And I don't seriously believe most large ISPs discard that kind of
data.  The bigger the organization, the more likely it is to hoard any
and all the data it generates.  Small ISPs, sure.  A few years ago, I
worked for one that didn't even have a way to log that kind of info.
SBC, Verizon, Earthlink and Comcast?  Not so much.

On 3/30/07, Collin <adderd at kkmfg.com> wrote:
> 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.
> >
> > Before anybody asks:
> > http://www.amazon.com/Kingmax-Super-Stick-Worlds-Tiniest/dp/B000JWTQLI/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/103-7705578-1439814?ie=UTF8&s=electronics&qid=1175279053&sr=8-1
> >
> >
>
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