16 May
2006
16 May
'06
11:33 p.m.
On Sun, 2006-05-14 at 19:36 +0100, Richard Brooklyn wrote:
That's neat... I'll turn that on as well. I kinda figured it would be dead easy to bypass that, but what you write makes a lot of sense.
Thanks for the advice. I still want to encrypt things, longer term. But this gives me piece of mind for the mean time...
Adam's laptop is a Thinkpad isn't it ?
If that's the case then the built in Bios/Disk security is pretty strong. The laptop is almost completely useless without a replacement chip or a very convoluted method to reset the secure identifier (which I am NOT going to post on a mailing list)
reusing the drive isn't trivial either
Not saying it's unbreakable, but it's a very very good first step.