Skyhook Offers LoJack-like Services To Locate Stolen Electronics

Skyhook Wireless is now offering a positioning system to help locate your laptop or other WiFi gadgets incase they’re ever stolen.  By compiling a list of 1.5 million public and private wireless access points, then marking them by their geographic location, Skyhook will be able to give an approximate location of your laptop, even if the crook only does something as simple as checking thier emails.  As with pretty much everything in life, it’s not perfect- the system only works if the thief signs on to one of the WiFi hotspots in the Skyhook system, and once you get the location information it is up to you on how you want to handle retrieving your stolen goods.

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