Comments on: “GadgetTrak” USB device tracking software

By: Kristie

Kristie — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 06:30:25 +0000

I would like to know how it has worked for someone who has a lack of police support. We recently had a HTC P4300 stolen, we have the number and first name of the person who had the sim card (stupid idiot answered some text messages we sent him - annoyed him — and returned the sim card - but said he found the card… and didn’t have the phone), and is all over our phone bill for calls made to/from that he did (so we found out a month later - since the phone company will not give you any phone numbers that are being accessed from your phone)… and the cops refuse to even talk to him about it…. and say just file the paperwork (but we won’t do anything with it….). These cops are totally useless! The cops here no blame it on the “cuts” however ones without “cuts” are doing the same crappy job! Heaven sakes… we have the person for them! If they just went to his house - they’d probably find lots of stolen goods!

We want to track the person down if they steal another one of our phones… and recover our own phone if at all possible. We can’t get a hold of the person’s address for the last phone - or we’d go recover it now… I have a hubby that doesn’t always keep his phone right next to him at all times… and the phone was left out in his truck. He isn’t eligible for insurance anymore because of the theft of his phone x2.

By: some guy

some guy — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 00:36:59 +0000

i like the idea of GadgetTrak a lot, and in theory, it’s exactly the kind of software i was looking for when i found this page.

however, as the review states (justly), it does rely on a few key assumptions, and well, it doesn’t work on a Mac. each of those assumptions (and the Windows-only) decrease the effectiveness of the software.

i’d prefer for the software to be much more hardcore, much more stealth (such as operating in a hidden partition), and work on Macs and PCs without buying the software twice.

that said, since i am in a university setting, i’ll probably buy a GadgetTrak license — as soon as i buy a new USB drive to replace the one that i lost yesterday!

By: 0ster Udech

0ster Udech — Tue, 09 Oct 2007 14:00:42 +0000

I am from Nigeria.I love your tracking technology.
What are your dealership or representative rules.
I would like to introduce your products in Nigeria
THANKS FOR YOUR COOPERATION
Yours sincerely
Oster Udech
Nos.6 gabros crescent,Otolo,P.o.box 1749,Otolo,Nnewi,Anambra state,
Nigeria.

By: Lol

Lol — Mon, 10 Sep 2007 05:20:20 +0000

Ryan, if you think that enabling file extensions is advanced technical knowledge, I don’t see how you’re posting here without the help of your grandmother.

By: Ryan

Ryan — Tue, 04 Sep 2007 22:40:07 +0000

It is so funny how the reviewer assumes that a theif will have such advanced technical knolwedge as to subvert the software, like they are all hackers in addition to being iPod thieves are also mad haxors. It kind of reminds me of the IT guy on Saturday night live boasting his own technical know how instead of focusing on the users. I think all security software can be worked around, even alot of the sophisticated laptopl theft software etc. I think this is a novel solution to device theft, although not perfect, it is the only solution that anyone has come up with so far. Seriously does anyone know of a better solution? I just did a search and could not find anything out there.

By: Ken

Ken — Tue, 04 Sep 2007 16:47:03 +0000

Em22,
Have you tried the software? With the IP address and other information collected law enforcement can get more information including the exact address from the ISP, you are not paying just for the software but the service behind it. Most free firewalls are circumvented by the GadgetTrak agent, the better ones of course are not, such as those you will find in a corporate environment. The product is not meant for USB drives, but for more expensive items such as iPods, digital cameras, GPS systems and more.

By: em22

em22 — Tue, 04 Sep 2007 14:58:31 +0000

This wouldn’t work at all. Whats the point of seeing a rough idea of where you device is? What if it’s in a block of apartments? You going to knock on all the doors to get it back??

Plus, today with the Internet getting ever and ever more unsafe - 99% of people have a firewall installed, even Windows firewall would alert you that something called password.exe has just tried to access the Internet. I would cancel the request and delete passwords.exe ASAP! Now whats Giga going to do?

I think if you were going to make this work, it would have to be incredibly difficult to foil… this isn’t!

And with the idea of putting GPS in a keydrive? Pointless! They are so cheap these days - if you want to have sensitive or irreplaceable data on a key drive dangling off you key ring you need your head testing! Instead buy a credit card style usb drive and pop it in your wallet. Much better!

By: AnusJuice.com

AnusJuice.com — Tue, 04 Sep 2007 14:11:33 +0000

Can I put that on my kid’s back pack?

By: Ado

Ado — Tue, 04 Sep 2007 13:46:18 +0000

Even though it would be a little hard and probably costly to locate the device once it’s lost in the real world I still like the idea.

I think once the technology gets even smaller you’ll be able to implement a GPS chip into any device you want. A good example is cell phones, you have a lot of new smart phones that are coming out with this technology and manufacturers are providing software developers with SDK’s that will allow us to send friendly signal with our location.

I guess that would require both GPS and some type of data transmission but hey we’re in the 21st century, that technology is not there yet :)