[GNUz] April 6thhardware trail

[Nick Rout]

On Fri, 07 Apr 2006 10:44:46 +1200
Rik Tindall wrote:

> Given the sensitivity of the contents, and the circumstances, it seems 
> most unlikely that the drive would ever be heard of again. You would 
> require the tracing services of Telecom (at least) to locate the 
> expropriator, if they were ever dumb enough to run the drive's installed 
> O/S. These last two factors are no more likely to happen than the first, 
> IMHO.


How do you propose that Telecon could trace a hard drive?

It may somehow be possible to trace a network card, if it is plugged
into telecom's network in such a way as to reveal its MAC address to the
world. However most aren't, as the typical briadband user has a firewall
or router between the PC and Telecom.



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Nick Rout <nick@rout.co.nz>