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Re: The right way to track a stolen laptop said by silentlooker:said by Kilroy:said by silentlooker:Take out bios battery, wait 3 min, put it back and everything back together and power on the laptop. No more password. Not so with all laptops. Plus with todays laptops you should be getting Drive Lock or a similar technology, which password protects the hard drive. No password, no boot and no data. Easy on and easy off. Moving the drive to a different machine does not provide access. If you take out the battery on laptop what keeps bios from resting? It works on same principal as desktop motherboard. Regarding drive lock, it can be cracked, it all depends how long time you will to spend on it. not on ALL systems. ive actually tryd it on a few. in most cases it does not clear the bios password. as for laptops, it depends on the laptop. ive got an IBM that you cant do that with.
as for drive encryption. i have my drives encrypted with truecrypt good luck breaking that. | |
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kudos:3 | said by thedragonmas:as for drive encryption. i have my drives encrypted with truecrypt good luck breaking that. Of course, that would have made the laptop unbootable, in which case the thief would have sold it on Craigslist rather than connect it to the campus network (which is what allowed the laptop to be recovered).
If you plan to have your laptop stolen, it might be better to leave the laptop bootable and just encrypt a data partition.
Unfortunately Windows makes it very difficult to keep all your data on a different partition and still boot.
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