Well, my birthday is in a few weeks and people have been asking what I would like for at least a month now. With a birthday so close to Christmas people like to plan early so I don’t get stuck with a combined gift or usually, something holiday themed and red.

The Personal Locator Unit is the perfect size to wrap around a pair of folded socks.

So this year, if anyone is still stuck on what to get my fabulous self, I give you this: The Lojack Safety Net. I would like them in varying sizes to attach to my scale ruler, my six pairs of scissors, my large xacto knife so I don’t step on it when it is under a pile of trace paper, my clear French curve that I can NEVER see on the wood floor and about fifty other items that I routinely misplace and spend precious time locating while on a deadline. If I had one earlier, then I wouldn’t be missing a pair of amazing gold Wolford stockings that I KNOW are in my apartment somewhere. For $30/month I estimate that this would save me at least 10 hours of search time which means I can be a leaner, meaner, model building machine!

This will DEFINITELY make a noise that will annoy my neighbors.

WESTWOOD, MA – October 26, 2009 – (Motor Sports Newswire) – LoJack Corporation (Nasdaq: LOJN), the company that invented and leads the Stolen Vehicle Recovery category, today introduced its next generation Stolen Vehicle Recovery System based on a newly developed proprietary power management protocol. This self-powered Stolen Vehicle Recovery System does not draw any power from a vehicle’s battery or electrical system, which makes it ideally suited for the vehicles of today and the future, including hybrid and electric cars.

The next generation Stolen Vehicle Recovery System answers the needs of Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs) that are seeking to implement intelligent power management systems in new cars. With the growing number of features and devices installed and utilized in today’s vehicles, there is an increasing need to reduce the draw on a vehicle’s battery to enable maximum vehicle performance and efficiency.

President Barack Obama has called for a million plug-in hybrids and electric vehicles to be on United States roadways by 2015 and this system delivers an energy efficient and proven theft recovery solution for these types of vehicles.

“As we looked to the future of the automotive market and held discussions with OEMs and our international licensees, it was clear that there was a need for a new generation of aftermarket products that are self-powered and optimized for newer vehicles,” said Ronald V. Waters, LoJack Corporation’s President and Chief Executive Officer. “This new Stolen Vehicle Recovery System directly answers that market demand and places LoJack in a strong position moving forward for the automotive market. As we continue to diversify our business, the new power management protocol will have beneficial applications in future versions of all LoJack products.”

Provides Benefits for All Vehicles — Including Hybrids, Electric and Collector Cars

More than one third of all vehicle breakdowns are due to electrical failures caused by too much dependence on the battery. Unlike GPS-based aftermarket products that draw power from a vehicle’s electrical system, the self powered LoJack solution helps retain battery power. It is especially ideal for hybrids and electric vehicles where maintaining battery power is so essential. And, by eliminating the draw on the vehicle battery, it is optimized for collector cars as well because there is no need to connect to the electrical system, which can be a complicated and disruptive process in customized collector vehicles.

System Increases Installation Flexibility and Enhances Covertness

Since the new system does not have to be connected to the vehicle’s electrical system, it provides efficiencies in the installation process and increases the number of locations inside the vehicle where the unit may be hidden — which is especially critical for the company’s licensees in markets where the theft problem is particularly severe. Being even more covert also will help ensure that LoJack’s Stolen Vehicle Recovery System — with its national recovery rate of 90 percent — remains the industry leader moving forward.

Availability

The next generation Stolen Vehicle Recovery System will be available for distribution through the company’s international licensees in the fourth quarter of this year and rolled out in the United States beginning in the first quarter of 2010.

About LoJack Corporation

LoJack Corporation, the company that invented the stolen vehicle recovery market more than two decades ago, is the global leader in finding and recovering a wide range of mobile assets including cars, construction equipment and motorcycles — having recovered more than $5 billion USD in stolen assets worldwide. In today’s rapidly changing world, LoJack’s core competencies are more valuable and more relevant than ever as they are now being applied into new areas, such as the prevention, detection and recovery of stolen cargo and finding and rescuing people with cognitive disorders such as Alzheimer’s and autism. LoJack has the proven processes, ultimate technology for recovery — Radio Frequency — and unique integration with law enforcement agencies, making its offerings the most effective solutions that not only deliver a wide range of recoveries, but also enhance the safety of the public on a global level. LoJack’s Stolen Vehicle Recovery System operates in 27 states and the District of Columbia, and in more than 30 countries throughout North America, South America, Europe, Africa and Asia. For more information, visit www.lojack.com.

CONTACT:
Paul McMahon
LoJack Corporation
781-251-4130

Jeanne Bock
Tier One Partners
781-861-5249

Laura Feng
Tier One Partners
978-975-1414

SOURCE LoJack Corporation

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Over our time at IDF, we had the chance to meet up with Absolute Software, the maker of the laptop recovery tool LoJack. What, you ask, is LoJack? If you’re a laptop owner probably one of the most useful pieces of software out there for laptop owners. LoJack exists because a warranty can only take you so far; what would happen if your laptop got stolen? (cue dramatic music)…

LoJack software is here to catch the thief and save the day (and more importantly, your laptop). Basically, you install the app, (most computers actually have it built in on a factory level, which allows a greater level of security – check the list here), and every so often, once you activate it by, well, buying the software, it’ll check in with LoJack on a daily basis. If you report your computer as being stolen, the program reports in more frequently, enabling LoJack, (who works with local police), to retrieve your computer. Which, as you probably realize, is pretty awesome. The more costly Premium Version has the additional feature of allowing you to remotely wipe your data on the computer, before it is returned, as a just in case feature. Also included in the premium is insurance – if they can’t get your computer back, they’ll give you up to $1000 for a new computer.

As a teenager, I think that the appeal of this is obvious – I carry my laptop everywhere, and I’d have no way of finding it if it was ever stolen. So for me, it’s pretty awesome. Thankfully, I haven’t had to try out their services, but they do note a rate of 3/4 laptops recovered.

LoJack is both Windows and Mac compatible, and costs $50 (1 year subscription) or $100 (3 years) in stores for the Standard Edition, [its cheaper on their site as a digital download], and $70 (1 year) or $120 (3 years) or the Premium Edition.

But, stick around –  later in the week, we’ll have three copies of the LoJack Premium Edition (3 years) to give away. So check back here soon!

BlackHat 2009 - Vegas

Has been a long time since my last post here… Alfred and I were working very hard for our last research/talk (the continuation of ‘Persistant BIOS Infection’) “Deactivate the rootkit” where we found that Computrace  (an Anti-Theft Technology system) comes by default on most of the laptops BIOSes and it can be controlled by an attacker compromising the whole system’s security mechanisms.

Im not going to explain all the research here… a lot has been said about this. We just did a turbo-talk at black hat ( a very long one, im really happy about that) and we didnt have the time to show all the proofs we gathered but we did it through Core. Here is all the stuff. Draw Your Own Conclusions

Slides: Black Hat – Las Vegas 2009

White Paper : Black Hat – Las Vegas 2009

Then, after some words of the computrace guys denying almost all our findings (here), we made public this page with all the proof, meaning: a tool to detect if your laptop has computrace in it, a network dump showing the first stage of the communication in plain text :S, several videos demonstrating what we said, and a tool to control and redirect computrace.

You can find the Core Security response here:

and the Core’s project page here.

A few pages who covered the talk:

Slashdot

ZDNet

SecurityFocus

Reddit

Author:
Mike Adams
08/20/2009

In this Episode, Joey and Mike take a look at a very important issue surrounding college campuses. Computer theft. We take a look at how to prevent it, and what you might be able to do if it is stolen. Also, in this episode, another Ask Andrew. In this Ask Andrew, Andrew tells you how to connect your iPod Touch to the campus Internet. As a side note…this method can also be used to register your laptop to the campus network as well.

This story comes from ZDNet News & Blogs site and CBS news.

File sharers leak government secrets.

Now why should we be concerned with story on computer tech site? Because I have not seen or heard anything from the print of TV news.

From the story:

“Sensitive files including Secret Service safehouse locations, military rosters, and IRS tax returns can still be found on file-sharing networks, according to a report issued to a U.S. House of Representatives committee on Wednesday.

In many cases, that’s because federal government employees or contractors installed peer-to-peer software on their computers without paying attention to which documents would be shared, Robert Boback, the chief executive of Tiversa, told the panel.

Boback said his company found the Secret Service’s evacuation plans for the first lady and motorcade routes. (See an interview with Tiversa about Marine One documents found on a peer-to-peer network this spring.)”

So now of course the government in it’s typical knee jerk reactions wants to introduce more regulation. It doesn’t matter that I believe every government agency already has a policy about employees adding any programs to government owned computer. I remember when I worked at the VA Hospital in Salisbury a memo came around from the director regarding this subject. Problem is that the VA really had no professional IT department. The fellow who ran what could be called an IT service was a one time pharmacy tech who had no Microsoft Certifications!

Now lets put this in perspective. The government can’t keep it’s own top secret documents safe, but they want US to believe that they can keep our own personal medical secure… Yeah and I have a couple of bridges for sale in NY! They can’t even keep track of the computers they have. How many stories have we read about missing laptops containing personal data including, names, addresses and social security numbers. Remember the top secret hard drives that were missing from a nuclear weapons development lab? And then they just happened to reappear in the vault. It would only take a matter of minutes to down load the contents of a hard drive.

The report goes on to report: “In addition, the Federal Trade Commission should investigate whether P2P software developers are violating the law, and the Obama administration should “undertake a national campaign to educate consumers about the dangers of file-sharing software,” Towns said. (In April, Towns’ committee informed the FTC it had reopened an investigation into inadvertent file sharing.)”

Just what we need! “Another national campaign to educate consumers about the dangers of file-sharing software”. Am I missing something here? Were these secrets stolen from John Q. Public’s personal HOME COMPUTERS or GOVERNMENT OWNED COMPUTERS? I for one have GB’s of top secret information on my personal computer. What TOP SECRET INFORMATION do I have on my OWN computer. Well let’s see, there is my mothers secret recipe for chocolate chip cookies, and of course my father old SECRET blend of pipe tobacco. Oh, Oh, and I have all of my wife’s clothing sizes. I sure wouldn’t want any of those to get int the hands of the Russians, China or worse yet, North Korea or Iran! The world as we know would come to an end.

Perhaps a much simpler plan would be to have the IT department check the activity on computers. Simple enough to do for any competent IT professional could do. And to help prevent the disappearance of computers and other high tech equipment, simply install LoJack on the them. The retail price for a single user is only$47.99/year, and that includes a remote data delete which would wipe the drive clean. Of course, the way the government buys programs the price would sore to $5000.99/per c0py. Remember the Air Force hammers and toilet seats? What a deal! And as an added bonus, they would be able to recover the stolen equipment.

Why aren’t the civil servants held responsible for sharing this sensitive data? They all know the rules, and the know the punishment for breaking the law. Put those laws to work. Don’t create new, redundant laws. Punish the law breakers.

Last week a LoJack-equipped 2006 Suzuki GSXR-750 motorcycle was discovered stolen from the owner’s apartment complex parking lot in Georgia. The owner immediately reported the theft and police activated the covert LoJack System. Within three hours, Henry County Police Department officers picked up the LoJack signal and tracked the bike to a house in a rural area. The officer called a detective with a search warrant to the site and inside discovered not only the stolen bike, but other stolen motorcycles – all part of a chop shop operation.

After a lengthy investigation, 18 motorcycles, some from as far away as Alabama, were recovered along with the LoJack-equipped bike. The criminals were stripping the bikes and selling the parts on popular online sites like eBay. Total value of bikes in this theft ring is more than $100,000. Three suspects were arrested and more arrests are expected as part of this major theft ring.

According to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Trenton Dean Mallard, 24, allegedly served as the ringleader and is in custody at Henry County Jail. Mallard was charged with 19 counts of theft by receiving and one count of operating a chop shop.

LoJack says it has achieve a 90 percent recovery success rate over the past 20-plus years, recovering more than $5 billion in stolen assets worldwide.

“These recoveries are great examples of how our proven system continues to benefit society by helping police not only find and recover stolen assets, but moreover break up organized crime rings and arrest the thieves behind these criminal acts,” says Ronald V. Waters, LoJack’s president and CEO. “These recoveries once again demonstrate that LoJack has the right technology and processes in place to effectively recover a wide range of stolen assets. Additionally, our direct integration with police puts recovery exactly where it belongs – in the hands of professionals who can swiftly track down stolen assets and arrest the perpetrators behind the crime.”

Nobody likes to have their car stolen, but sadly enough, car theft is still a very popular crime today. Thankfully, an innovation has been created to help prevent this, and it’s called vehicle tracking. Basically, vehicle tracking is about installing a tracking system device into an automobile, and allowing another type of remote hardware track in on the device, if ever needed. There’s a lot more about this system than meets the eye. Vehicle tracking is a technology, first used in the shipping industry. Today, just like other types of technology, there have been numerous innovations and changes that made it more efficient and reliable. It also requires a unique type of system, so it will perform at its best.

A device made from a collection or set of electronics, a vehicle tracking system tracks down the location of a particular vehicle either by the owner himself or by third party groups. The system also has a protocol that the electronic devices need so they can perform their duty and be able to communicate with each other.

Popular vehicle tracking systems used today include:

GPS – This is perhaps the most inexpensive kind of tracking system used by ordinary citizens. The GPS is a satellite system, controlled and maintained by the government. It’s the most common kind of vehicle tracking today.

GPS has many user-friendly functions. For one, because it uses satellite tracking, it doesn’t need a direct line with the sky. This makes it more efficient and reliable in numerous ways. GPS’s efficiency is even preferred by numerous law enforcing automobiles, and it’s considered their most common way of tracking vehicles.

LoJack – This tracking device is developed and produced by Lojack Corporation. The name “LoJack” is supposed to be a humorous word coined from the word “hijack”.

Another friendly feature of the GPS is that, being a satellite tracking system, it does not require direct line of with the sky, which makes it extremely efficient in a lot of ways. A significant majority of law enforcement vehicles use GPS as their primary form of vehicle tracking system.

LORAN is another popular type of vehicle tracking system. Just like LoJack, it uses radio frequency when tracking automobiles.

Yesterday was a pretty busy day at work. Lots of work to do, several fires to put out, and the pressure of a billing run created quite the perfect storm of stress.

That’s what I’d be writing about if it weren’t for some crackhead son of a bitch who thought it would be cool to break my car window. There’s nothing to steal in my car you damn reprobate!

At this point in our advanced society, does anyone actually leave anything of value in their cars anymore? An entire industry was built around making radios that won’t work when removed from the car or that have faceplates that come off. Some egghead sat in a cubicle for years to perfect that little button that pops that faceplate off right into your hand.

Yet, some dipshit with eyes set too far apart to not be living in eastern Kentucky thinks he can make a few bucks by stealing the change from my ashtray. It’s amazing this mental giant hasn’t yet cured the common cold. A genius is unstoppable when his plan consists of:

1. break window
2. crawl through window
3. empty glovebox
4. ignore $300 GPS unit inside center console

My car has an alarm system and a Lojack tracking system. All those years of research and technology didn’t do a damn thing to stop this bad ass of breaking and entering. So, imagine that schmuck who spent 6 months of his life trying to figure out how to get the accelerometer in my car alarm to detect the movement from a stiff breeze, yet somehow forgot about making the alarm know when the damn window is busted out. He’s really contributed to society in a way that can only be matched by whoever it is that pays for those billboards from God. I think God would be a lot happier if you spent that money actually helping someone in need as opposed to testing out your wit on a captive audience of coffee-drunk, road rage-fueled suburbanites.

So, now I’m sitting here as the torrential apocalypse falls from the clouds above staring at the awesome duct tape/garbage bag car window I cobbled together wondering which one of you nerds is responsible for all of this.

1. LICENSE TO BREED: You need a license to drive, to carry a gun, and to practice medicine, so why don’t you need a license to have a child? Drivers’ licenses encourage safety on the road, gun permits allow us to keep track of our WMD, and medical licenses keep witch doctors away from the unsuspecting public. Along with safe streets, (arguably) less violence, and healthy people, shouldn’t we also strive for having better educated parents? Thus, let’s make people apply for licenses to breed before they start popping out devil children. Instead of swerving around cones in driver’s ed, applicants will learn to change diapers in parent’s ed. Of course, we can’t control the fact that some unlicensed deviants will still churn out babies under our nose. But to counter that, we could offer substantial tax relief only to licensed parents. With such a plan in place, perhaps this will discourage the Octo Mom from adding to her litter.

2. GET YOUR IRRESPONSIBLE FRIENDS SPADED AND NEUTERED: This would be Plan B, just in case the child license law fails to pass the Senate.

3. LOJACK YOUR CHILDREN: With modern technology, there has to be an easier way to keep track of your children. Imagine going to Wal-Mart and buying a Stolen Child Recovery System for $695 (about the same retail price of a LoJack for your car). With this system, you would get a tiny, non-invasive tracking device that you can stick on your child’s body. To them, it would seem like a bumpy freckle. To you, it would be peace of mind. With all the kooks and the baby-crazed unlicensed parents out there, you’d know that your children are safe. You’d also know if your daughter was sneaking over to Bobby’s house instead of going to the library, like she said. So, for the sake of protecting the privacy of the wild youth, perhaps we’d have to limit the LoJack tracking device to kids under the age of 10.

4. VICE TAXES: Vice taxes are not new, as the success of cigarette and alcohol taxes have led the Pigou crew to lobby for pollution and gasoline taxes as well. But if taxes really do impact behavior as much as economists like to believe, then why not tax vice in general? Anytime someone commits a crime, they’ll still have to go to jail or pay a fine, but we can also increase their effective tax rate for a specified period of time. (Just call me Dr. Seuss.) Get caught with a high-end prostitute? Pay a lump sum $500 fine, and then watch your tax rate jump from 35% to 38% for a year. Simple assault? Do your time in jail, then get released to +5% in your tax bracket over two years. Hey, if taxes really are the cure-all, then such a policy could have enough positive deterrent effects to justify its failings in rehabilitation.

5. GET RID OF HIGHWAY PATROL: One of the most costly and inefficient functions of law enforcement is highway patrol. Here’s an alternative solution: all registered vehicles must now get a small barcode stamped on each side of the car. Law enforcement will place discreet barcode scanners along the road, which will act sort of like the scanner at the grocery store checkout. When you’re speeding along the highway at 120, the scanner flags your car as “speeding”, and your registration information is automatically transferred to the police. Given that there might be several thousand people caught speeding a day, there will be some limits on how punishment is applied — perhaps out of every 1,000 vehicles caught speeding, 100 will be randomly chosen and ticketed. Or, perhaps every vehicle registrant will be notified that they were speeding, and everyone will get one black mark on their record… Ten black marks, and your license will be suspended. The possibilities are endless. And with the money we save on highway patrol, we can allocate more funds to worthy government ventures, like teaching our children… or bailing out AIG.

Can you get your stolen laptop back?

There is a way that you can protect your laptop, and then retrieve your laptop after it’s been stolen.

The Ponemon Institute, a privacy risk management think tank, released an extensive study in June 2008 entitled “Airport Insecurity : The Case of Missing and Lost Laptops.”** They studied laptop security at 106 American airports and found that there is an average of 12,000 laptops lost, missing or stolen at American airports PER WEEK! The airport with the worst record is Los Angeles International, with about 1,200 per week. The nation’s busiest airport, Atlanta’s Hartsfield, was in eighth place with 450 per week.

Further, the study found that only 33% of the laptops within the airport’s Lost and Found Departments are ever reclaimed! That means that the remaining 67% of unclaimed laptops are either sold or disposed of by airport authorities. Can you imagine the amount of sensitive personal and business data contained in those laptops? No one knows what happens to that data, but it is ALL at risk. The Identity Theft risks are astronomical.

In a recovery example, three burglary suspects were arrested on February 1, 2008 by Albuquerque police, thanks to a stolen computer loaded with tracking software. The software is called LoJack for Laptops™, developed by Absolute Software. The tracking software told the police exactly where to find the suspects. The police were also able to recover thousands of dollars in other stolen property at the location.

Absolute Software is the leader in Computer Theft Recovery, Data Protection and Secure Asset Tracking™ solutions. It works this way: You install the LoJack for Laptops™ software and register it at the LoJack website. If the laptop is stolen, you notify your local police and notify the LoJack Recovery Team. The next time your computer is connected to the Internet, the laptop secretly notifies the Monitoring Center of its whereabouts. The Recovery Team can track its location, and provide police with the information they will need to get a search warrant and recover your laptop.

Pricing for LoJack for Laptops™ starts at only $39.99 per year.

My friend here in Atlanta, Cole Harrison, had his laptop stolen from his car recently. He had the Lojack system on the laptop, and notified them immediately when he discovered the theft. Lojack located the laptop the next day…in Thailand.

If you want protect your laptop so you can get it back after it’s been stolen, check out: www.lojackforlaptops.com Lojack boasts a 90% recovery rate for stolen laptops.

For only a small price, you can have the proper coverage you need to protect all your personal and business electronics. Be the smartest person on your block with the right protection. Be the hero to your business with the best coverage. YOU CAN DO IT!!

** To read the entire study, go to: http://www.dell.com/downloads/global/services/dell_lost_laptop_study.pdf

LoJack, la empresa líder en seguimiento de vehículos y otros bienes muebles a través de tecnología satelital,  ha encomendado a Infometrika las acciones de comunicación, interactividad y fidelización de sus productos LoJack Home, LoJack for Laptops, LoJack Call y LoJack 360.

LoJack está realizando una agresiva campaña de concientización para sus productos de monitoreo, seguridad y recupero, evaluando a las herramientas que ofrece la tecnología móvil como uno de los medios de acceso al mercado más efectivos.

El proceso iniciará con una serie de concursos sobre plataformas SMS, a través de los cuales Infoemtrika detalla las bondades de las prestaciones de los productos de LoJack, y donde los participantes pueden acceder a notebooks, reproductores MP4 y otros premios.

A partire dallo scorso luglio, i clienti che installano il sistema LoJack sul proprio automezzo godono di una tariffa incendio e furto agevolata che permette, attraverso un’apposita convenzione, di ottenere sconti importanti anche su garanzie accessorie quali Eventi speciali, cristalli, collisione, kasko e infortuni conducente. Il progetto è intermediato da Premium Brokers di Milano con Nationale Suisse. La convenzione comprende condizioni particolari anche per autocarri, furgoni, camper, moto, quadricicli e macchine operatrici. Sul sito www.premiumass.it ci sono tutti i particolari della convenzione con costi e garanzie.LoJack Corporation è una società americana leader mondiale nei sistemi per il rilevamento e il recupero di veicoli rubati, che collabora con le più importanti forze dell’ordine in tutto il mondo per combattere il problema dei furti, riducendo drasticamente anche il rischio di eventuali danni al veicolo.Il sistema LoJack è estremamente efficace e garantisce un rapido recupero dei mezzi rubati. In caso di furto, un piccolo trasmettitore a radio frequenza emette un segnale silenzioso che può essere ricevuto anche se il veicolo si trova all’interno di garage sotterranei o container. Grazie alla rete di antenne LoJack e alla tecnologia wireless ad alta frequenza, il segnale è rilevato dalle pattuglie delle forze dell’ordine che possono così ritrovare il veicolo in tempi molto brevi.

Fonte: http://www.ilgiornale.it/a.pic1?ID=292334

How to Install Lojack for Laptops

1. Locate the desktop icon that comes installed or loaded in your system by your system’s manufacturer. (If your manufacturer didn’t offer this feature for your system, you can check out Absolute Software for the product.)
2. At the Lojack for Laptops Install splash screen, click Next.
3. Click Start Install.
4. Click “I accept the terms of the license agreement” and then click Next.
5. Enter your contact information into the fields provided, then click Next. All fields must be completed to continue.
6. When the registration page is successfully completed, the installer will retrieve some survey questions. Click Next to continue.
7. Click Install.
8. Click Finish to complete the installation. The Install Manager will remove itself from the desktop and from Add/Remove Programs as added security.

Support Information:

All support for the Computrace software comes directly from the vendor, Absolute Software. Issues including configuration, installation, errors, usage, how-to, and troubleshooting should be referred to the vendor.

Absolute Software can be reached here:

Website:  http://www.absolute.com
E-mail:  techsupport@absolute.com
Telephone:  (888) 999-9857

By Robin Roshkind, Esquire, West Palm Beach, Florida

Divorce lawyers rely on a lot of information about an opposing party to set forth a case in litigation or settlement.  The truth is, it is very easy to ascertain the truth, with all the tools available to lawyers and private eyes, and all the vulnerability and exposure of the opposing party.

Private investigators start with the public records, where we can see all the real estate and vehicles/boats/planes an opposing spouse has.  We can also see all the companies and corporations that spouse has an interest in.  We can check out behavior (drug use, gambling, etc.) with criminal background checks, and employment records.  All this in a matter of hours. 

Insurance documents expose all the jewelry or artwork possessions of a spouse.  Dating web sites show photos, facts, true or otherwise, dates and times.   Cell phone text messages are very easy to get.  Even photos on a computer and email letters to a paramour are easily ascertainable through forensics.

Want to know where a spouse is going at night?  Put a lojack on the vehicle.  Private investigators are busy gathering easily accessible information on your spouse without him or her even knowing about it. 

Credit card statements indicate purchases and at what type of stores and or resorts/airlines.  Online purchases come up also.  Phone bills are relied upon in harassment cases or custody cases to see how often a particular number is called. 

The point is that alot of information is easily available to anyone who goes looking for it.  It is very difficult to cover one’s tracks in this age of  technology and cyberspace.

For more information on this or other divorce topics,  call for a consultation with one of the attorneys at ROBIN ROSHKIND, P.A. at 561-835-9091 or click on the Firm’s web site at www.familylawwpb.com.

By Robin Roshkind, Esquire, West Palm Beach, Florida

Think about the secrets you have… where do you hide them?  Divorce lawyers know exactly where to look and we hire forensic IT guys to help us.  The following list should be a warning to spouses everywhere that you can run but you can’t hide:

1.  Cell phone text messages

2.  Cell phone voice messages

3.  Facebook

4.  Twitter

5.  Youtube

6.  MySpace

7.  Dating web sites like Match.com

8.  My pictures

9.  Your blackberry

10.  Your web site

11. Lojack on your car

There is no privacy anymore, so if you are in divorce court or are contemplating a divorce, be aware of what you put into cyberspace.  You may inadvertently be shooting yourself in the foot so to speak.  Remember, divorce is about finances, custody (your behavior), money in bank accounts, lifestyle (credit card bills), income and telling the truth.  So if you have something to hide in the trunk of your car, don’t leave the car keys on the table.

For more information about this or other divorce topics, consult with one of the attorneys at ROBIN ROSHKIND, P.A. at 561-835-9091 or click on the Firm’s web site at www.familylawwpb.com.