|
PGP makes a real good product. Including good hard drive encryption.
Don't waste your time with a BIOS password, or a windows password. Well, do it to keep out the rifraff, but anybody who knows about computers can bypass them both in about ten minutes.
The BIOS password can be manually reset, and then you tell the BIOS to boot from a CD, which you do using a CD bootable linux distribution. Then simply ditch the hash file containing the windows password, and boot the computer normally...your in.
Lowjack is probably not worth it, because if they are just after the data they will probably ditch the laptop after removing the hard drive.
An encrypted hard drive is really the only way to keep your data secure.
__________________
"Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery." - Winston Churchill
"All men dream: but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act out their dream with open eyes, to make it possible." Seven Pillars of Wisdom, T.E. Lawrence
|