Laptop stolen in Sosua - reward will be paid if laptop returns

[Rocky]

Do you, by any slim chance, know the MAC address of the wireless card?

Let's say that he did, how would you suggest he go about locating it?

 

[tsg]

No, I don't have the mac addres.

 

[Rocky]

These methods assume (a) the perp has the laptop on and is still in Sosua (b) the MAC address hasn't been changed (c) you have the equipment, time, and are a little insane. A couple options:

1) If you knew the preferred network list configured on the wireless interface and the respective network keys, you could configure a "honeypot" access point, hook it up to a high power transmitter (directional antenna for bonus points), drive around Sosua, and as soon as the laptop associated with the network, keep sending it packets, and you could follow it back to it's physical location using the power levels of the adapter. Even if he didn't have the MAC address, this method would work.

2) You could configure your laptop for various hot spots in Sosua, and knowing the network keys and MAC address of the adapter, it would be fairly easy to find the laptop as long as it was sending data on the network. You could just wait for it to send data and look for the MAC address in the packets or just map the network every so often and look for the MAC address in the list of recognized hosts.

There's a few tools available for porking around with WLANs to make this really easy.

It might be easier and less expensive to find the weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.

 

[Rocky]

Actually, if the above conditions are met, this is stupid easy.

Of course, but it's meeting the above conditions that ain't easy.
Do you have any idea how many wifi networks are happening around here?
Plus, it still doesn't do you a lick of good if the people hook up by ethernet.

 

[Tamborista]

Perhaps the laptop is hiding in a cave in the mountains above Sosua?
It could take 5 years to find the machine.

tambo'

 

[Criss Colon]

I Don't Care If The Guy Was looking At "PORN"!

To have something stolen is called theft! You don't "deserve" it1
Anyone,(BIGTURD???), probably aslo belives that a woman who is raped while wearing "Tight Jeans" and a halter top, also "Deserved" it!
The moslems have a few things right, "Chop off the hand of a thief!"
Bet it really cuts down on recetivism (Did I spell that right??)
Cris Colon
Anyone who has ever been to "Eddy's",or "Rocky's" would say they are "Safe" places to hang out!
I would say"Beware" of the dog!
But "Beware of the owners!" might be more accurate!
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[tsg]

As an answer to Cris Colon I can say that they do have a tradition here with shooting criminals in the leg. Not all of the limping guys in this country are victims of the traffic. My Dominican lawyer told me to get a gun and just kill the bastard if a thing like this should ever happen again. I would not like to kill a guy for stealing a laptop, but the local point of view is that one dead thief is one less problem in the street. Any of you guys who have any advise here?

And when it comes to safety, my place was pretty safe too until last sunday. My costumers always tell me that they like it at my place because they feel safe and relaxed here. I guess I would still call it pretty safe, but not a 100% of course, but who is in this country? Others might say that they have been here for many years and never had a problem like mine, but can they give a 100% garantee for their places for tomorrow or next week? I think what happened here could have happened anywhere.

All I hope for with getting my story posted here, is that we all do something to prevent a similar thing to happen again and that the places that never were robbed never will be.