On 22/02/07, Crispin Cowan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > There have been 2 or 3 companies started whose security product was an > agent that "phoned home" so you could track it down if it was stolen. > Some of these products also have disk encryption features so that you > can remotely disable the computer. Such a feature has even been built > into the OLPC http://hardware.slashdot.org/hardware/07/02/19/1654231.shtml > > IIRC, long before such products, stolen computers have been recovered > because of similar accidental network activity that was programmed into > them. > > And come to think of it, why would any sane person run the SETI client > on a mobile laptop? It would just suck battery life by keeping the CPU > hot ...
I think some of these clients ([EMAIL PROTECTED], distributed.net) have an option to only run when the laptop is on mains power. cheers, Jamie -- Jamie Riden, CISSP / [EMAIL PROTECTED] / http://www.linkedin.com/in/jamieriden NZ Honeynet project - http://www.nz-honeynet.org/ _______________________________________________ FDE mailing list [email protected] http://www.xml-dev.com/mailman/listinfo/fde
