Foo - LoJack anti-theft protection device: would you buy that thing for your laptop?

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On Any Sunday
08-20-09, 04:58 PM
The customized laptop I'm about to buy from HP is kinda expensive. I'm going to use it for work and school. Since it's very much a part of my everyday work life I'm going to want to do everything I can and look at every option that'll help keep my laptop as secure as possible in the interest of data security.

Knowing about the potential security hole in LoJack, would you, today, go ahead and customize your new laptop with LoJack embedded in your BIOS firmware or would you say fuhgeddaboudit!!??

http://www.vancouversun.com/business/Absolute+Software+denies+claims+hackers+exploit+software+commit+crime/1850869/story.html
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5gDEcxr3CSkM0RlVSqVzNWlccf6XwD99P33N82
http://blogs.zdnet.com/security/?p=3828


KingTermite
08-20-09, 05:30 PM
Just a thread about this yesterday or so.

http://www.bikeforums.net/showthread.php?t=574740