Laptop Stolen - How to track?

[Tulkas]

My cousin's laptop was just stolen from their rental car in my driveway. Is there anyway to track it once it's connected to the internet?

[Craig]

nope

[CoffeeShark]

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Originally Posted by CmdrTulkas

My cousin's laptop was just stolen from their rental car in my driveway. Is there anyway to track it once it's connected to the internet?

i heard about an apple owner remote connecting to the webcam and taking a picture of the thief.

otherwise, only if they have the serial number, report it to the police, and to the manufacturer, or if they had some tracking software installed.

[useful_idiot]

nah.

[Craig]

they'd need a remote connection setup on the laptop to do that. and I still don't know how you'd find the laptop unless you knew the IP to connect to. that apple story turned out to be fake if i'm not mistaken

[useful_idiot]

i take it back, i think there's a laptop lo-jack

[Craig]

ya there is, but it needs to be installed first.

[Dopefish]

Well, Apple has that "Back to My Mac" service. I don't know if you need a MobileMe account or not to use it. It should let you connect to it from other Macs over the internet. You would have had to enable the service before it getting stolen, though.

[useful_idiot]

ya i know, i guess that was advice for his next laptop

[No-Fear]

He's screwed. But for future references he needs to buy tracking software.