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Article: Special Software Lets Stolen Computers 'Phone Home' in Riverside, Calif., Area.

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August 19, 2002
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By Richard Brooks, The Press-Enterprise, Riverside, Calif. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News

Aug. 19--Jo Ann Higdon is a rarity among the victims of computer thieves: Detectives were able to recover one of her two stolen laptops.

The $2,000 machines were equipped with tracking software, programs that periodically "phone home" to help authorities find a missing computer.

"Unless we find a pawn slip, without the tracking software, it's unlikely you're going to recover one," said Detective Rick Simms of the Riverside County Sheriff's Department.

Tracking software has been commercially available since the late 1990s, yet few ...

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