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Track Your Missing Notebook with Pombo

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Productivity Sauce; By Dmitri Popov
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To recover a lost or stolen notebook, you need all the help you can get -- and this is where Pombo can come in rather handy.

To recover a lost or stolen notebook, you need all the help you can get -- and this is where Pombo can come in rather handy. The key component of the Pombo solution is a tiny Python script that runs on your notebook. The script runs quietly in the background and collects tracking information such as the IP address and information about all network interfaces as well as information about nearby wireless access points.

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