Adeona for Mac

Adeona for Mac 0.2.1a

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Description

Adeona for Mac is a revolutionary security software that allows you to track the location of your lost or stolen laptop without relying on a proprietary, central service. This means that you can install Adeona on your laptop and go about your business without worrying about losing it. What's more, Adeona addresses a critical privacy goal different from existing commercial offerings. It is privacy-preserving, which means that no one besides the owner (or an agent of the owner's choosing) can use Adeona to track a laptop.

Unlike other systems, users of Adeona can rest assured that no one can abuse the system in order to track where they use their laptop. This is because Adeona uses strong cryptographic mechanisms to encrypt location data and ensure that ciphertexts stored within OpenDHT are anonymous and unlinkable.

Adeona is designed to use the Open Source OpenDHT distributed storage service to store location updates sent by a small software client installed on an owner's laptop. The client continually monitors the current location of the laptop, gathering information such as IP addresses and local network topology that can be used to identify its current location.

The process of installing and using Adeona is straightforward. Once you have downloaded and installed it on your Mac device, you will need to create an account with OpenDHT if you don't already have one. You will then be prompted to enter some basic information about yourself and your device before activating tracking.

Once activated, Adeona will start monitoring your device's location in real-time using GPS coordinates or Wi-Fi triangulation depending on what's available at any given time. The software also has features like remote locking or wiping in case someone steals or finds your computer.

One thing worth noting about this software is its ability not only to locate but also protect user privacy while doing so - something many other tracking solutions fail at achieving adequately enough for users' peace-of-mind purposes alone!

In conclusion, if you're looking for reliable security software capable of protecting both personal data as well as physical devices from theft or loss - look no further than Adeona for Mac! With its advanced encryption technology combined with easy-to-use interface design make it perfect choice among all other options available today!

Full spec
Publisher Adeona
Publisher site http://adeona.cs.washington.edu/
Release date 2008-09-06
Date added 2008-09-06
Category Security Software
Sub category Monitoring Software
Version 0.2.1a
Os requirements Mac OS X 10.4 Intel/PPC, Mac OS X 10.5 Intel/PPC
Requirements None
Price Free
Downloads per week 1
Total downloads 1413

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