[ale] Laptop Security Trick

[Robert L. Harris]

Very nice.  I'll be doing this today.


Thus spake Mike Harrison (meuon at geeklabs.com):

> 
>   Although it won't help you with a competent thief,
> I had my truck broken into and my laptop stolen 
> a while ago...
> 
>   20 minutes afterwards, I get a call from a
> pawn shop down the road.. seems a lady 
> tried pawning it with the story "it belongs
> to my brother". During power-up, 
> my face with a phone# and address popped up
> from /boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz
> 
>   The pudgy baldish white guy in the pic
> did not look like he could be related. 
> He spun the laptop around to show her the 
> boot splash screen, and she ran. 
> 
> -Which reminds me I need to do that to my machines again.. 
> and you may want to as well.
> 
> I'll save you the googling how to make the image:
> 
> http://www.tldp.org/LDP/LG/current/jayanth.html
> 
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