In a SCIFI.COM newsletter there was an article that decried the inablitliy for a iPOD to phone home. The tack being that if it was stolen you could track it down and get it back. http://blog.scifi.com/tech/archives/2007/08/16/shift_how_apple.html
In an earlier article there was a service that offered this, originally for free, but now it is a yearly charge. http://blog.scifi.com/tech/archives/2007/02/26/gadgettrak_find.html
Is there an opensource application that does this? If not, it would seem a natural addition to the portable application suite.
I know that I would really like to know where/who has my thumbdrive. Especially the incredibly tiny Sony microvault ones that are way to small and I know I am going to lose it, but it was just too neat and I had to get it. http://www.sony.net/Products/Media/Microvault/usm-h.html
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i don't know of any open sourced program that will let ur usb phone home but there are alternatives, not the best but they help. go here for an executable that will display a message containing ur detials. Go here for an executable that will display a splash screen, that you could customize to contain ur message and/or images.
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and you will find this.
Ryan made a proggy similar to the one you posted with NSIS.
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