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Janitha's Laptop Anti Theft Alarm

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Uploaded by on Oct 22, 2008

A small python Anti Theft Alarm script I wrote which uses the laptop's built in Accelerometer feature.

http://www.janitha.com/archives/136

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  • Can the thief mute the sound?

  • nope, the volume control keys are disabled when the gnome screensaver/lock is running.

    Although the thief can plug in headphones which would disable the PC speakers

  • Can't you simply send it to sleep? Or does it catch that?

  • Well all the soft power down and sleep actions are disabled, but there are a few ways to get around this.

    For one, you can hold the power button down for 4 seconds which does a hard power down. Another is plugging in headphones which disabled the speakers. And another is restarting the X server using the key combination

    It's not a perfect solution, but I am making an assumption that who ever tries to steal my laptop doesn't know these

  • @dryicerx

    Hello!

    Hpw can I install this on my lenovo windows 7 laptop?

    I can't find a download link

    Thanks!

  • @isnasucks Unfortunately this only works with Linux.

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  • @dryicerx You just made it public ... :) Everyone who has watched the video or visited your site will know what to do ...

  • you would just remove the battary.

  • how do i get this

  • The new once have intergrated chip speaker

  • They can just remove the batteries while the laptop is running.

  • lol so mean.

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