Dear All, A very disappointed morning for me. My laptop got stolen. is it possible to track laptop using MAC address. Police asked for MAC address. Q1 . How to track using MAC address or any other possibility ? Q2. How to get mac address when you do not have laptop with you. I have done ssh to other lan systems, Will it be possible to get mac address using those .ssh keys ?? Or any method to get mac address. I have serial number and probably I may get mac address using customer care.
----- Original Message ----- From: "narendra sisodiya" narendra.sisodiya@gmail.com To: "GNU/Linux Users Group, Mumbai, India" linuxers@mm.ilug-bom.org.in Sent: Thursday, July 16, 2009 1:35 PM Subject: [ILUG-BOM] [OT] Laptop tracking using MAC address
Dear All, A very disappointed morning for me. My laptop got stolen. is it possible to track laptop using MAC address. Police asked for MAC address. Q1 . How to track using MAC address or any other possibility ? Q2. How to get mac address when you do not have laptop with you. I have
Hi,
The MAC address is unique for each Network device. The one embedded in your laptop is therefore also unique. That is the reason police is asking for it. Using the MAC address, they can find the location if someone uses your laptop to connect to the internet.
It is generally listed at the back of the laptop, but as you have lost the laptop the number is lost too.
You can contact your laptop company and if you have the serial number of the laptop, they may be able to help you get the MAC address as they might be having records of the same. Your serial number may be available on the purchase invoice provided to you by your dealer, if not you can look for the same on the box that the laptop was shipped in.
Hope you are able to recover the laptop soon. Also hope all members make an immediate note of their own MAC addresses to counter such a situation in future.
Vinod Chand
On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 2:02 PM, Vinod Chandvinodchand@gmail.com wrote:
----- Original Message ----- From: "narendra sisodiya" narendra.sisodiya@gmail.com To: "GNU/Linux Users Group, Mumbai, India" linuxers@mm.ilug-bom.org.in Sent: Thursday, July 16, 2009 1:35 PM Subject: [ILUG-BOM] [OT] Laptop tracking using MAC address
Dear All, A very disappointed morning for me. My laptop got stolen. is it possible to track laptop using MAC address. Police asked for MAC address. Q1 . How to track using MAC address or any other possibility ? Q2. How to get mac address when you do not have laptop with you. I have
Hi,
The MAC address is unique for each Network device. The one embedded in your laptop is therefore also unique. That is the reason police is asking for it. Using the MAC address, they can find the location if someone uses your laptop to connect to the internet.
It is generally listed at the back of the laptop, but as you have lost the laptop the number is lost too.
You can contact your laptop company and if you have the serial number of the laptop, they may be able to help you get the MAC address as they might be having records of the same. Your serial number may be available on the purchase invoice provided to you by your dealer, if not you can look for the same on the box that the laptop was shipped in.
Hope you are able to recover the laptop soon. Also hope all members make an immediate note of their own MAC addresses to counter such a situation in future.
Vinod Chand
HI, Could you may please any one have knowldge then please share with us that how cops can track the laptop from it's MAC addresses.
rajnish
On Thursday 16 July 2009, Vinod Chand wrote:
----- Original Message ----- From: "narendra sisodiya" narendra.sisodiya@gmail.com To: "GNU/Linux Users Group, Mumbai, India" linuxers@mm.ilug-bom.org.in Sent: Thursday, July 16, 2009 1:35 PM Subject: [ILUG-BOM] [OT] Laptop tracking using MAC address
Dear All, A very disappointed morning for me. My laptop got stolen. is it possible to track laptop using MAC address. Police asked for MAC address. Q1 . How to track using MAC address or any other possibility ? Q2. How to get mac address when you do not have laptop with you. I have
Hi,
The MAC address is unique for each Network device. The one embedded in your laptop is therefore also unique.
It is trivial to change the mac address either temporarily, or permanently using bios flashing utils. Lets hope the thief is not tech savvy.
Vinod Chand wrote:
----- Original Message ----- From: "narendra sisodiya" narendra.sisodiya@gmail.com To: "GNU/Linux Users Group, Mumbai, India" linuxers@mm.ilug-bom.org.in Sent: Thursday, July 16, 2009 1:35 PM Subject: [ILUG-BOM] [OT] Laptop tracking using MAC address
Dear All, A very disappointed morning for me. My laptop got stolen. is it possible to track laptop using MAC address. Police asked for MAC address. Q1 . How to track using MAC address or any other possibility ? Q2. How to get mac address when you do not have laptop with you. I have
Hi,
The MAC address is unique for each Network device. The one embedded in your laptop is therefore also unique. That is the reason police is asking for it. Using the MAC address, they can find the location if someone uses your laptop to connect to the internet.
It is generally listed at the back of the laptop, but as you have lost the laptop the number is lost too.
You can contact your laptop company and if you have the serial number of the laptop, they may be able to help you get the MAC address as they might be having records of the same. Your serial number may be available on the purchase invoice provided to you by your dealer, if not you can look for the same on the box that the laptop was shipped in.
Hope you are able to recover the laptop soon. Also hope all members make an immediate note of their own MAC addresses to counter such a situation in future.
Vinod Chand
I was under the impression that every message posted from that device has the MAC address embedded.If so would not an old message reveal that address even if the device is no longer available.
regards hg
I guess the police can use the MAC address to identify the laptop on recovering it, making sure of the ownership - which is probably why they asked for it. Tracking down a laptop using a MAC address does not seem practically possible for the police or anyone... it is very easy to change the MAC address temporarily while connecting to the internet, and marginally more difficult to change it permanently.
On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 1:52 PM, Aditya MJ anorion@gmail.com wrote:
I guess the police can use the MAC address to identify the laptop on recovering it, making sure of the ownership - which is probably why they asked for it. Tracking down a laptop using a MAC address does not seem practically possible for the police or anyone... it is very easy to change the MAC address temporarily while connecting to the internet, and marginally more difficult to change it permanently. -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
Today, when I contacted to service center, they suggested me "*to have BIOS/Machine level password. without password the laptop is useless and he has to come to service center* and we would have catch it" is it true ?? any thought on this "prevention is better then cure"
On Friday 17 July 2009, narendra sisodiya wrote:
On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 1:52 PM, Aditya MJ anorion@gmail.com wrote:
I guess the police can use the MAC address to identify the laptop on recovering it, making sure of the ownership - which is probably why they asked for it. Tracking down a laptop using a MAC address does not seem practically possible for the police or anyone... it is very easy to change the MAC address temporarily while connecting to the internet, and marginally more difficult to change it permanently. -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
Today, when I contacted to service center, they suggested me "*to have BIOS/Machine level password. without password the laptop is useless and he has to come to service center* and we would have catch it" is it true ?? any thought on this "prevention is better then cure"
Rubbish. Open the back and reset the cmos. Even the PS2 and Xboxen were cracked, and they went to extreme lengths to prevent booting from unsigned media.
The robbed laptop / auto markets are well oiled businesses, and ensure that they are not traceable. Of course one hopes that the theif was an amateur.
Aditya MJ wrote:
I guess the police can use the MAC address to identify the laptop on recovering it, making sure of the ownership - which is probably why they asked for it. Tracking down a laptop using a MAC address does not seem practically possible for the police or anyone... it is very easy to change the MAC address temporarily while connecting to the internet, and marginally more difficult to change it permanently.
I agree. It is the serial number that is unique.
Hi,
Dear All,
A very disappointed morning for me. My laptop got stolen. is itpossible to track laptop using MAC address.
Sorry to hear about the loss.
Q1 . How to track using MAC address or any other possibility ?
I don't think you'll be able to track your laptop using MAC address as MAC to IP address mapping is done via ARP protocol and this is non routable. So tracking your laptop through a router via MAC address doesn't seem possible to me.
Q2. How to get mac address when you do not have laptop with you. I have done ssh to other lan systems, Will it be possible to get mac address using those .ssh keys ?? Or any method to get mac address. I have serial number and probably I may get mac address using customer care.
As you've mentioned you'd done ssh to some remote machines on your LAN, so if you remember your IP address then you can lookup at arp cache on remote machine and get your MAC address.
On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 4:15 PM, Mayank mail2mayank@gmail.com wrote:
As you've mentioned you'd done ssh to some remote machines on your LAN, so if you remember your IP address then you can lookup at arp cache on remote machine and get your MAC address.
-- Today is tommorrow I was so worried about yesterday ... -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
Ok, Mayank, yup, I will look for arp cache..on remote machine...
I am still looking for how to track using mac or anyother, Will let you know if i found any method..
On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 8:12 PM, narendra sisodiya < narendra.sisodiya@gmail.com> wrote:
On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 4:15 PM, Mayank mail2mayank@gmail.com wrote:
As you've mentioned you'd done ssh to some remote machines on your LAN, so if you remember your IP address then you can lookup at arp cache on remote machine and get your MAC address.
-- Today is tommorrow I was so worried about yesterday ... -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
Ok, Mayank, yup, I will look for arp cache..on remote machine...
I am still looking for how to track using mac or anyother, Will let you know if i found any method..
I have looked the LAN PCs, arp cache. using
*cat /proc/net/arp * but there is not such entry corrosponding to my ip address. I have done ssh from my Laptop to LAN PCs. I have not done ssh from LAN PCs to my laptop. So this might be the problem. in such case, how can I found mac address.
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