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Asked: 2021-12-11T15:51:00+00:00 In:

Trace Stolen Laptop By MAC Address

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I am victim of laptop theft and police tell me that there
is little that they can do for me. I do have my
hardware configuration saved on a backup, including
MAC address, ethernet ID, and Bluetooth ID. Is it
possible to find the network where my stolen laptop
may be connected to through MAC address or
ethernet ID from another network?

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      There is virtually no chance your laptop can be traced unless the thief is dumb enough not to wipe the drive of any identifying/tracking program that you would have to have installed before the theft. Connection to the internet in most cases is done via a router of some description and only the mac address of the router would be visible to the WAN. You can forget about trying to track the laptop network card mac address.

      Your only real protection with laptops is to enable bios boot and harddrive passwords. If you did have these features activated then your data is secure and the system will not be able to startup. As I understand it the only way to get past a bios boot password is to replace the bios EEPROM chip and your average thief isn’t going to have the skills to do this.

      If you didn’t have those passwords activated then you will know better next time.

      Goin’ Fishin’ (Some day)

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