[ale] Laptop Security Trick

[Nate Murchison]

On 10/7/05, Mike Harrison <meuon at geeklabs.com> wrote:
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> Although it won't help you with a competent thief,
> I had my truck broken into and my laptop stolen
> a while ago...
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> 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
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> 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.
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> -Which reminds me I need to do that to my machines again..
> and you may want to as well.
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> I'll save you the googling how to make the image:
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> http://www.tldp.org/LDP/LG/current/jayanth.html
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That might work where you and Bill Bennett live, but here in Colorado most
thieves are white.

Of course this might help the case where an Indian has his laptop stolen by
a visiting cracker.

Nate
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Nate Murchison
Chief Technology Officer
American Fire and Bomb, L.L.C.
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