[FDE] SETI finally finds something!

[Jamie Riden]

On 22/02/07, Crispin Cowan <crispin at novell.com> wrote:
> There have been 2 or 3 companies started whose security product was an
> agent that "phoned home" so you could track it down if it was stolen.
> Some of these products also have disk encryption features so that you
> can remotely disable the computer. Such a feature has even been built
> into the OLPC http://hardware.slashdot.org/hardware/07/02/19/1654231.shtml
>
> IIRC, long before such products, stolen computers have been recovered
> because of similar accidental network activity that was programmed into
> them.
>
> And come to think of it, why would any sane person run the SETI client
> on a mobile laptop? It would just suck battery life by keeping the CPU
> hot ...

I think some of these clients (SETI at home, distributed.net) have an
option to only run when the laptop is on mains power.

cheers,
 Jamie
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Jamie Riden, CISSP / jamesr at europe.com / http://www.linkedin.com/in/jamieriden
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