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The reasons being: 1) I want to be able to have the hard drive encrypted. Having a guest account doesn't really allow that. 2) I don't want to make any assumptions about the potential thief. Including if they'll use it, or just sell it, and if they, or the person they sell it to, knows the most basic security measures. I feel it's relatively common knowledge, or at least widely enough known, that a wiped hard drive is an unrecoverable computer, to the point I don't want to trust that it won't happen. 3) I want the service to be free. I do think that hard wiring a ducky into a USB

There's a few ideas that I'm mulling over. First: I think this could be relatively possible with a Raspberry Pi Zero W. If i connected it directly to a power source on the motherboard, it could boot up when the power gets turned on, and be programmed to email out whatever data it can find. There's already some pretty decent code written that is set up to do just that. The problem I'm currently running into is what you mentioned, getting it to interface with the wifi. It can't work if it doesn't know the login info, and in order to do that after a wipe, and the laptop being put on

So after having a laptop stolen, and finding really no help to recover it, I had to come up with an idea of my own, or maybe it exists, and I don't know. I want to exploit my own laptop by soldering a USB to the motherboard. This USB, once the computer is turned on and logged into, and detects a network, will do one, or all of three things: 1) Will drop a specific remote access file matching one that is pre-saved in a cloud server, allowing the original owner to remotely access their stolen computer. This file will be dropped every single time on startup, and if the file already exis