Quote Originally Posted by uBronan View Post
won't help if the thief is smart
That wouldn't matter in the UK. Thieves aren't smart. We're not talking 'Raffles' here, just kids stealing for booze and drugs

Quote Originally Posted by uBronan View Post
you can run a project which does not use much power called Freehal
That's what I was doing. But one day it blew up, downloaded millions of workunits and made a laptop unusable. And another day I found FreeHAL port scanning. Plus it didn't/doesn't look like the most stable project out there. But I did consider it as a free solution

Another big problem is that once you've got the IP information and traced it, the police (in the UK at least) won't use it. Clear up rate on thefts is about 3%. Persuading the local police to contact the ISP and get an exact subscribers details are zero

Al.