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Re:Ask HN: Recovering a stolen laptop by custominstall on Wednesday July 06, 2011 @01:49AM (#2732735)
Is this possible (maybe a business idea here esp. for macs since they don't have virus scanners generally running) :

A phone home virus which you can drop into your dropbox and give it your sudo password. It can do funky stuff like install preyproject silently.

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Re:Ask HN: Recovering a stolen laptop by peterzakin on Wednesday July 06, 2011 @07:56AM (#2733451)
this is exactly the type of thing i was thinking about. Basically a file that you place in your dropbox which autoruns...
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