With netbooks so cheap, the expected return of such a strategy might have recently turned positive. (It would be nice to think that only those who steal the laptops would be bitten, but as thieves probably pass them on to innocent third-parties, there's not really a 'white hat' way to use this trick.)
http://gojomo.blogspot.com/2002/12/trojan-laptop.html
With netbooks so cheap, the expected return of such a strategy might have recently turned positive. (It would be nice to think that only those who steal the laptops would be bitten, but as thieves probably pass them on to innocent third-parties, there's not really a 'white hat' way to use this trick.)