Comment on Ask HN: Recovering a stolen laptopComments−custominstall15yIs this possible (maybe a business idea here esp. for macs since they don't have virus scanners generally running) :A phone home virus which you can drop into your dropbox and give it your sudo password. It can do funky stuff like install preyproject silently.−peterzakinOP15ythis is exactly the type of thing i was thinking about. Basically a file that you place in your dropbox which autoruns...
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Is this possible (maybe a business idea here esp. for macs since they don't have virus scanners generally running) :
A phone home virus which you can drop into your dropbox and give it your sudo password. It can do funky stuff like install preyproject silently.
this is exactly the type of thing i was thinking about. Basically a file that you place in your dropbox which autoruns...