On Wed, May 17, 2006 at 12:47:39AM +0100, Wayne Stallwood wrote:
I get your point though, if every laptop manufacturer did this as well as IBM and pretty much enforced the security out of the box then we would see less laptop theft. Trouble is given peoples tendency to forget login credentials I am guessing this would cause a lot of support headaches.
That's sorta my point, if *everyone* did this then it would make nicking laptops a pointless crime without adding a threat of "give me the password or I'll cut ya" which gets you a good few more years in prison. It also means your average thief won't get access to your data (but you run linux anyway, they won't even have a clue) so there isn't much of a problem.
Although, data leakage is an interesting problem given that my "new" camera turned up today from Watford Electronics/Savastore.com which was supposed to have "missing or damaged packaging" as soon as I got it I suspected something was wrong and ran Photorec ( http://www.cgsecurity.org/photorec.html ) on it and found that the previous owner had recorded a picture of his/her baby and a very short video of their baby attacking the packaging of the camera.
Don't you just love data recovery software. If I'd not managed to hit the video record button with the original memory card in I might have got some more data off the card.
Thanks Adam