The number of lost laptop in airports are growing each year. The loss of valuable data could not be accounted for in terms of money. Battling this problem would take some tracking software installed on the laptop. There are even expensive program that could take the photo of the user of the lost laptop using the built-in camera. Others could even delete the entire hard disk from remote site.

These are some solutions to the problem, but what is interesting is the entry of an open source software. Adeona which could now be used to do some of the basic things like tracking a lost laptop is the first Open Source system that competes with other commercial software. More information from the website could be availed http://adeona.cs.washington.edu/. The software secretly runs and makes use of the IP of the stolen laptop when connecting to the Internet. There’s a feature also that captures the face of the stolen laptop user through a web cam. Good news for everyone.