Anyone who takes their laptop or netbook on the road (pretty much anywhere, not just Sosua/DR) should install this program.
Prey is open-source (free) software that runs in the background. If your laptop is stolen and you have access to another computer (or web-enabled phone) you can use your personal code to mark your laptop as missing. what then happens is you get emailed or view online reports that will tell you if the laptop is online, show you the local ip address, a google map location, and take snapshots of the desktop and (if your laptop has a webcam) of anyone sitting in front of the laptop. whoever has taken the laptop will have no idea this process is running.
it can even be set to automatically connect to the internet at specific intervals just to check if it's been 'marked' as lost. you can remotely delete stored passwords, outlook data, even password-lock the system.
it's an essential 'just in case' tool to have installed on your machine, imho.
http://preyproject.com/
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