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Is it useful?

Posted Jul 9, 2011 8:20 UTC (Sat) by shane (subscriber, #3335)
In reply to: Is it useful? by NAR
Parent article: Prey: Open source theft recovery

A friend of mine just got his stolen laptop back using Prey. The thief was arrested. Yay!

The thief was a thief of convenience, not a professional, as I suspect most are. This particular one mostly used the laptop for surfing porn, and did not wipe anything.

Prey is no guarantee, but it has saved thousands of euros of MacBook Pro and put a bad guy behind bars.


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