For Laptops

In the Usenet newsgroup alt.computer.security, in article

STRONG aroma of snake-oil detected

Domain Name: LOJACKFORLAPTOPS.COM Registrant: Juma, Amin Absolute Software Corp. 111 Dunsmuir St. Suite 800 Vancouver, British Columbia V6B 6A3 CA Record created on 15-Mar-2005.

I wonder if these con-artists got permission from LoJack Corporation in Westwood, Mbuttachusetts (USA) to use the name - probably not

or if the lap-doggy is connected behind a firewall, or doesn't have a modem... yeah - there are a few problems. But it looks like it might do something... not sure what.

Web Results 1 - 10 of about 2,740,000 for disk encryption. (0.23 seconds)

Web Results 1 - 10 of about 832,000 for computer recovery theft. (0.28 seconds)

(The first two links are to the same company absolute.com, as is the pop-up ad)

Web Results 1 - 10 of about 299,000 for trace stolen computer. (0.25 seconds)

bash #bin-dd if=-dev-zero of=-dev-hda bs=2048 count=536870912 bash #

Your one Terabyte hard disk is now all zeros, INCLUDING the MBR. The program that did that is a part of several O-S - I'd use Toms RootNBoot, which is the whole deal on a single 3.5 inch floppy. On a 32 bit computer, that command scales to a eight Terabyte max (expandable to 32 Terabyte with several keystrokes), which is likely to be larger than your hard drive for the next two or three years.

If you have important data on your disk ENCRYPT THE WHOLE FREAKIN' DISK using any of the better applications you can find above. Make sure that you use a strong pbuttphrase and that this pbuttphrase is NOT stored on the computer. Even if your lap doggy is recovered after being stolen, how do you know that the "secret data" you have on the disk (the credit card numbers, the pbuttwords to that Pr0n site, what-ever) hasn't been copied. (Is that a "Duh" moment you just had?) If you can't figure that out, you probably should not be trusted with anything as complicated as a digital watch, much less a computer.

System Requirements * Windows XP * Internet Connection and-or Hayes-compatible modem * Internet Explorer 6 and above

Doesn't support other versions of windoze, much less any other operating systems. Requires Intersnot Exploiter - thanks, but none of my users are so st00pid as to trust software with back doors and exploits out the whazoo.

Old guy