On Fri, Aug 24, 2001 at 12:27:54PM -0700, Russell Williams wrote: > > Are there any other ways to protect PPC laptops if I > leave one alone for some minutes or if it is stolen. don't leave them unattended. (duh) > How do you protect your laptops? if the powerbook is new enough it will have OpenFirmware security features which will prevent booting, or booting with alternate boot media. combine that with yaboot's password protection and you will have to disassemble the thing to disable the firmware security or remove the disk. depending on who stole it and thier intentions that won't do you any good, if they are after the data they will get it, unless you heavily encrypt it. most will simply want to sell the machine, firmware passwords and *nix login prompts very well may discourage them since trying to sell a computer for which you have no passwords tends to look a wee bit suspicious (well i would be anyway..) for a bit of humor, there was a article on The Register awhile back where someone stole a laptop, which was running debian and returned it when they booted it to find, not the friendly `Press Cancel to get root' Windows 98 but a debian Login: prompt. -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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