I think you raise a good point. Most stolen devices will be wiped so they
appear good to sell. These tools wont help much there...
Anton
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On Sep 5, 2011 3:33 AM, "Andy Smith" <andy@???> wrote:
> Hi Mike,
>
> On Sun, Sep 04, 2011 at 09:43:53AM +0100, Mike Austin wrote:
>> Those of you concerned about loss of a computer or Smartphone should
visit
>>
>> http://preyproject.com/download
>
> I've been thinking about this, but the difficulty is that I kind of
> want to continue using full disk encryption. Expecting a thief to
> know how to log in to Linux is already a bit unlikely, before you
> even add the encryption. I'm thinking it's more likely that they
> would know how to wipe the SSD and install Windows, or just sell it
> as-is down the pub.
>
> What do people do to ensure that Prey can be run even while using
> full disk encryption?
>
> I was thinking it would be nice if dm-crypt would have a password
> timeout so that e.g. after 30 seconds it boots into something else.
>
> Even then, the trouble is I'd have to install a minimal Linux
> environment on the alternate boot just to be confident that it gets
> online, webcam works, etc. This sounds like a lot of work.
>
> I don't really want to start only encrypting certain directories
> (e.g. /home); I don't trust *myself* to never put sensitive info
> outside these directories, so if I was in charge of desktop support
> at a larger company I would certainly never trust employees to do
> the right thing in this regard.
>
> Maybe it comes down to how paranoid you are. It's just that dm-crypt
> works really nicely these days so it's hard to justify not using it
> on mobile devices.
>
> It would be interesting if the BIOS could do all the stuff that Prey
> does!
>
> Cheers,
> Andy
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