Stolen PC recovered....thanks to Boinc!

One of my clients recently had one of the office PCs...misplace itself. It was there one day, gone the next.

Fortunately, it happened to be a client who had approved Boinc. Set to run as a service and crunching only after 10 minutes idle, the employees never knew it was there.

When the client notified me of the loss, I checked my account and found the machine was still reporting in. I checked the IP, found the ISP, and notified the local police. It took them all of a day to get the address and a search warrant. They recovered the PC this morning, from the house of a soon to be former employee.

This is not the first time Seti has rescued a stolen PC, I got a laptop back a couple years ago the same way.

So there you have it, a great way to pitch Boinc to management....Free Asset Recovery Software!