There is little you can do if your Mac is stolen other than make sure it's
insured and take a note of the serial number for any claims. According to the
developers, there are 600,000 laptops stolen every year in the USA alone and
about 97% of these are never recovered. However, Undercover offers an extra
way to recover your Mac if the worst happens. It makes ingenious use of your
Wifi enabling the developer security centre to locate your Mac within a range
of 10-20 metres. It also makes ingenious use of your iSight - it takes
pictures every 6 minutes of whoever is in front of your Mac and transmits
them to the security center so your thief will be completely exposed!
Undercover doesn't stop there however. If for any reason your Mac can't be
recovered, it reverts to "Plan B" which is basically to make your Mac
unusable by completely dimming the screen. If the Mac is returned to a shop
or Mac dealer for repair, Undercover even detects this and alerts the seller
by both text and audio message that the Mac has been stolen. There's no
interface as such to speak-of. When you install it, you're given an
Undercover ID that's unique for the Mac you've installed it on. When your Mac
is online, Undercover routinely checks whether the Mac is reported as stolen.
This is a bit concerning in terms of privacy but the developer's assure that
Undercover will not send any identifying information from your Mac to it's
server. Of course, the whole service comes at something of a cost although
there are differing rates depending on whether you are s student, business
user etc. *Undercover is the kind of security application that may be your
only hope of ever recovering your Mac if it's stolen. If you don't want to
rely on it, then make sure everything is backed up.*Download *Undercover
5.1.1* in Softonic
