mike
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Wi-Fi 'Finders' Helping Thieves Locate and Steal Laptops (Switched)
Mar 3rd 2010 7:20PM I strongly agree with csantoni's statement about the author not really knowing much in regard to wireless.
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"Wi- Fi disconnection must be done manually, as it can take as long as a half-hour for a laptop to go into sleep mode."
* You can configure it for up to 5 hours if you really would like; but if your battery can last that long with your wifi enabled would be pretty impressive.
2.) Almost all people will at least put their computer into stand-by mode when traveling with their laptop(no wifi powered on)
3.) If your wifi is enabled and laptop on, the thief probably won't have a very large amount of time to locate your laptop since your battery will be getting drained.
Sounds like the author saw a wifi finder and came up with this idea. I really would be interested to hear of a news story about a crook going around scanning for laptops; would be more interesting of a read most likely ;)
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