Chris Devers wrote: >> iAlertU is actually an awesome piece of software. It's a *software* >> alarm for >> Mac laptops. [...] >> >> [...] You can arm and disarm it with the remote >> control that comes with your Mac. Well, that remote is really small and >> easily lost. What if you don't have it with you? That's ok, you can >> arm it >> via a menu option. >> >> But to disarm it you need that remote. >> >> Whoops. > > Surely, having an easy way to disarm it without the remote would greatly > diminish its usefulness as an alarm, no?
No. > The whole point is to draw attention to itself if it gets tampered with > while armed. I suppose it could ask for some kind of override password, Seeing as how it requires a password to be armed via keyboard, that would be the idea. If xscreensaver can figure this out, you'd think iAlertU would, too. > but that could be eavesdropped; requiring the Remote does seem like > amore robust approach to making it tamper-resistant. Maybe that's how they do it in the movies, but I'm pretty sure I'm not being followed around by a gang of hip, young, charming hacker prodigies intent on stealing my sekret data so they can save the world. I just want to stop some jerk from walking off with my laptop in the minute it takes me to go to the bathroom or if I have to step outside for a phone call. A password will be fine, thanks. And those nifty remotes? I don't think they have any sort of unique ID. Last I checked any remote will work with any laptop. Here's something fun to do when you're bored; get an Apple remote and find some schmoe with a Mac laptop. Sit behind him, palm the remote and start turning his music on and off, bringing up Frontrow, changing songs, turning the volume up and down, etc... HI-LARITY! > If all else fails, can't you just kill the PID from Terminal, or force a > reboot? While this might be an acceptable work around for your average Windows user, I expect software that doesn't conspire to lock me out of my own computer. -- Stabbing you in the face for your own good.
