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		Blarat on May 17, 2011 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Windows 7 Network Awareness: How Windows knows it ... I think that making it phone your own NCSI server instead would be quite interesting, just in case your computer gets stolen.

omh on May 17, 2011 [–]

It could be useful for corporate laptop users. I can imagine using this so that I know the IP address and connectivity status of remote users to use when they call in with issues.

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