[clug-talk] FOSS Calling home solutions for laptops

[simon at mungewell.org]

> Likely though, the first person to actually boot the laptop is going to
> format the drive.

Set a BIOS password,an ATA (disk access) password, and then encrypt the
drive contents.

This way if your machine is lost/stolen you can be pretty sure that it is
only useful as spares. With the cost of machines these days that value of
the data far outweighs the value of the machine.

Simon