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JC on February 27, 2006 - 9:38am

There are downsides to Timbuktu besides cost. to begin with, it requires you to make and incoming connection to the stolen mac. Increasingly these days, people (and most thieves are people) have firewalls and wireless access points and NAT routers, meaning that you won’t get to deliver your payload unless your thief has conveniently set up port forwarding.

By flipping this around the other way, there are fewer things that can go wrong, and it doesn’t require you to personally be online at the same time as your thief. You just upload a file and go about your life…

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