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On the security of our processes and infrastructureOn the security of our processes and infrastructurePosted Sep 18, 2011 0:36 UTC (Sun) by ccurtis (guest, #49713)In reply to: On the security of our processes and infrastructure by geofft Parent article: On the security of our processes and infrastructure
You can also set an admin password in your BIOS and disable booting to external drives, [...]Or, as I do (out of necessity, really), remove the hard drive from the laptop and only boot from external drives. It's a lot easier to carry around a portable hard drive than a laptop anyway.
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On the security of our processes and infrastructure Posted Sep 23, 2011 17:27 UTC (Fri) by oak (guest, #2786) [Link]
In this case you could make the OS on the internal hard drive to do "interesting" things if somebody ever happens to boot it, like:
* Log anything the user does (URLs, passwords etc), take photos with the webcam * Scan for WLAN networks & connect to network * If that fails, use few dollar/euro prepaid SIM to do cellular connection instead * "Call home" to log close-by WLAN & phone base stations etc info needed to locate the laptop and identify its thief * If "Home" tells that the device should do something, first disable volume & power off keys * Then start blinking the screen & blasting from the tinny speakers something like "I'm stolen, please call police" etc.
Whoever steals that device, will probably remember it for a while and maybe even avoid geek conferences in future...
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