Well, the folks that said that he was bluffing — you were right.
Most techies consider that anyone could see that the Rine was telling porkies. One of the ways that Rine claimed he identified the tea leaf was by installing the same version of Windows on another computer. If the professor had attempted to use the same key to activate a copy of Windows, the activation servers would have denied him access.
Some of the technobabble that the professor spouted to out the thief was impressive, but has not been found to work well yet.
He claimed that there were passive trackers embedded in the bezel of laptop screens beside the wireless transmitters. Technology like this does sort of exist, but is rare and not used by anyone outside the Department of Energy.
He also claimed that the wireless card in the laptop triggered some location data. This is possible, but pretty unlikely.
(Courtesy Engadget)
