Re: [Full-Disclosure] laptop security

2004-02-28 Thread Chris Gundersen
Oddly enough, this was posted to Slashdot today: "Stolen Laptop Alarms" http://www.canada.com/vancouver/story.html?id=511952d3-89a0-4a03-a092-be29eaeb346f Read the /. article here: http://slashdot.org/articles/04/02/27/1735218.shtml -chmod755 Gadi Evron said: > I think this may interest some

Re: [Full-Disclosure] laptop security

2004-02-28 Thread Will Image
actually i was looking into the same kind of thing... ihad a few option , the easiest being of course was to have a program startup with the OS and when a net connection was detected it would 'phone home' with info , but this opton can be bypassed if the thief formats the drive... second option wou

[Full-Disclosure] laptop security

2004-02-28 Thread Gadi Evron
I think this may interest some people here. I always say, whenever laptops are mentioned: "Forget everything else, I have nightmares already!". The loss of information due to laptop thefts is extremely high, here is an innovation that may possibly be as useless as car theft alarms (unless you