--- Ethan Benson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, Aug 24, 2001 at 12:27:54PM -0700, Russell > Williams wrote: > > > 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
The iBook2 is new enough, isn't it? > 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. Are you sure that there are no master passwords? I have only had x86 computers so far and there have always been master passwords for the BIOSs. > 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. Yes I'm going to encrypt my data, but that would be useless if you could easily install a trojan if I leave it unattended for some minutes. Regards Russell __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Make international calls for as low as $.04/minute with Yahoo! Messenger http://phonecard.yahoo.com/
