Paul

A cool ,if a little expensive, product called Undercover from the people at Orbicule. A few nice features like pretending to have a HD failure and it notifies the Apple store when you bring it in for repair. $49 per Mac. People love their Macs so this could be a winner.

Paul

This is a great story of a stolen phone which was returned after this guy ,Evan Guttman, set up a website to put pressure on the person who had the phone.

The person has tried to upload pictures from the phone but it went to the real owners account, so a friend of hers (Evan) set up a website to track the person down - they did - hundreds of people go involved.

Put on the kettle - make a cup of tea - this is worth reading.

Paul

No Phone, no ipod, no email - sounds either like hell or bliss I am not sure which. A great post of living without technology from the guys at shefbase.com. The quote that sums it all up.

“The week had bordered on torturous. Technology has become such an integral part of our lives, it is almost incomprehensible to live without it.”

All of us at yougetitback.com spend all our time making sure that people get these items back - it is fascinating to get an insight into what it is like without our tech tools to operate our increasingly busy lives.

Paul

Perhaps it is because I have started this blog recently but there seems to be an incredible amount of theft and losses of data particularly in the UK in the last few months. Asavin Wattanajantra has posted on ITPRO a great timeline detailing all the major events from end 2006 to now.

A quick tot shows that there were data breaches on 27.2 million people in the UK, albeit one major 25 million event by Revenue&Customs. This event has the dubious honour of being one of the worlds largest ID protection failures ever.

As well as being a worry to consumers , it is costing big business a lot of money as well as losing trust from consumers. Nationwide Building Society was fined £1m for losing customer data that was on a laptop stolen from an employees home.

Paul