Cheap way to lowjack
I got this idea earlier today, and I just got it to work. I wanted a program in case my laptop was stolen that would periodically record what network it was on and what was in front of the camera. That way, if someone not very bright opened my laptop on a network, I'd know the IP of the nearest router and I might get a picture of the thief.
There's a program that does this called Adeona, if you use "does this" in the very broadest sense. Adeona has had a series of problems, and it basically doesn't work.
However, if you make a cron job (Firedaemon will do the same thing for windows, I think) that takes a picture from the webcam and drops a traceroute and you write it to a Dropbox directory, Dropbox will handle put the file on the network. I use uvccapture to take the picture on Linux. Macs have a built in program that does the same thing. I don't know what the windows version would be.
For instance, until I get sick of the gross surrender of privacy, here is the last image taken by my laptop camera, updated every minute.
There's a program that does this called Adeona, if you use "does this" in the very broadest sense. Adeona has had a series of problems, and it basically doesn't work.
However, if you make a cron job (Firedaemon will do the same thing for windows, I think) that takes a picture from the webcam and drops a traceroute and you write it to a Dropbox directory, Dropbox will handle put the file on the network. I use uvccapture to take the picture on Linux. Macs have a built in program that does the same thing. I don't know what the windows version would be.
For instance, until I get sick of the gross surrender of privacy, here is the last image taken by my laptop camera, updated every minute.