[clug-talk] FOSS Calling home solutions for laptops

[John Jardine]

Don't depend on the drive password, this can be bypassed per the spec.

External whole drive encryption is preferred.


On Fri, 2009-05-08 at 16:05 -0400, simon at mungewell.org wrote:
> > 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
> 
> 
> 
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