[81662] in Cypherpunks
Re: [CNN] Stolen Laptops and lame 'solution'
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (geeman@best.com)
Thu Jun 12 12:36:51 1997
From: geeman@best.com
Date: Thu, 12 Jun 1997 08:39:16 -0700
To: raymond@wcs.net, cypherpunks@Algebra.COM
Reply-To: geeman@best.com
At 05:22 PM 6/11/97 +0000, Raymond Mereniuk wrote:
>
>>
>> > The call goes to a Canadian office
>> > that in turn phones the cops. So far,
>> > it has a 100 percent recovery rate.
>> >
>> ====== 100% of WHAT? Systems with it installed which are stolen? How
>> would you know what systems do NOT call in?
>> It's like the question the clerk asks at the airport: "Did anyone put
>> anything in your luggage you don't know anything about?"
>>
>> Now that the word is out, of course, the wily thief will eschew pluggin in
>> until the hard drive is reformatted and installed
>> with a clean OS. As usual: the stupid will be caught.
>
>This has been discussed on this list before, about 1 year ago. The
>Computrace software is installed on a place on the hard drive where
>DOS utilities like Fdisk and Format can not get at it. This is the
>same as Diskmanager Version 7 or higher, Fdisk and Format will not
>remove this version of Diskmanager.
>
Unless you overwrite the MBR and the first TRACK on the disk. Well, the
bar is raised by
about 3 minutes with DEBUG, thanks.
