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Posted by Woody on January 31, 2008, 3:37 pm
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That hit the fan before. Do you want every government agency even local
police departments tracking you on line. Every crook with a computer could
track you....
> What is the latest in this regard? Had a Toshiba M70 SR3
> stolen about a year and a half ago. (Only a few months old) I was
> advised by Toshiba that if I had ever had it scanned by them, such as
> would have been the case had I experienced problems with it and had
> reason to hook up with their facilities, they would have had a record
> of the chip number and it could be tracked when on the internet.
> Unfortunately I was not aware at the time that software was
> available to do just that. At added cost to me, of course.
> No cross record apparently exists between the serial number and
> the chip number when they are manufactured.Good deal for the retailers
> I guess but not the theft victim.
> I wondered if internet or email tracked any of this in order
> to identify individual computers. It has been suggested to me that
> Toshiba has some sort of stolen laptop record they keep if one reports
> the theft to them.
> As an observation, is it not about time that we, the
> consumers, demanded that the manufacturers provide tracking capability
> built in and provided to the purchaser?
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