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[FYI] Net Address Helps Finger Felons
- To: debate@fitug.de
- Subject: [FYI] Net Address Helps Finger Felons
- From: Kristian Köhntopp <kk@netuse.de>
- Date: Thu, 26 Aug 1999 14:04:23 +0200
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- Organization: NetUSE GmbH
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http://www.wired.com/news/news/technology/story/21431.html
Net Address Helps Finger Felons
by Andy Patrizio
2:00 p.m. 25.Aug.99.PDT
Running the RC5 client on your computer
is not only a nifty way to win a few
thousand dollars, it could also help find
your PC if it is stolen.
...
On two occasions, computers running the
RC5 client were stolen, but the crooks
were caught because they didn't realize
that the computers could be traced.
...
--
Kristian Köhntopp, NetUSE Kommunikationstechnologie GmbH
Siemenswall, D-24107 Kiel, Germany, +49 431 386 436 00
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