Comments on: Catching the Crook Who Stole Your Laptop! http://www.jhlabs.co.uk/2009/01/catching-the-crook-who-stole-your-laptop/ Blog of a web developer / designer living and working in Swansea, Wales Thu, 29 Jul 2010 15:40:42 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5 By: jh labs » Blog Archive » Catching the Crook Who Stole Your Laptop! http://www.jhlabs.co.uk/2009/01/catching-the-crook-who-stole-your-laptop/#comment-258 jh labs » Blog Archive » Catching the Crook Who Stole Your Laptop! Sat, 24 Jan 2009 19:39:34 +0000 http://www.jhlabs.co.uk/?p=23#comment-258 [...] here to read the rest:  jh labs » Blog Archive » Catching the Crook Who Stole Your Laptop! Categories : Laptops, image, software Tags : crook, development, jh-labs, photos, [...] […] here to read the rest:  jh labs » Blog Archive » Catching the Crook Who Stole Your Laptop! Categories : Laptops, image, software Tags : crook, development, jh-labs, photos, […]

]]> By: Adam http://www.jhlabs.co.uk/2009/01/catching-the-crook-who-stole-your-laptop/#comment-256 Adam Sat, 24 Jan 2009 15:46:59 +0000 http://www.jhlabs.co.uk/?p=23#comment-256 * Something can't be "unstolen" - it can be "not stolen" but, unstolen implies that it was stolen and then returned ;) * You'd be much better transmitting data over HTTP rather than FTP. You can easily use curl to send POST data to a PHP script which will then email it to you. * Don't say anything about it until you've got the data - sleeping after telling them they stole your laptop before uploading their picture is unwise. * This person just stole your laptop - do you really want to give them the FTP details to your server in plain text? They can quite easily open this up, logon and remove the data. Hence, why an HTTP post would be wise. * Something can’t be “unstolen” - it can be “not stolen” but, unstolen implies that it was stolen and then returned ;)

* You’d be much better transmitting data over HTTP rather than http://FTP. You can easily use curl to send POST data to a PHP script which will then email it to you.

* Don’t say anything about it until you’ve got the data - sleeping after telling them they stole your laptop before uploading their picture is unwise.

* This person just stole your laptop - do you really want to give them the FTP details to your server in plain text? They can quite easily open this up, logon and remove the data. Hence, why an HTTP post would be wise.

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