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One of the features is anti-theft, which reminds me that the war against laptop theft is ridiculous.
by yuhong 10y ago
One of the features is anti-theft, which reminds me that the war against laptop theft is ridiculous.
- djsumdog 10y agoI theory you could add a BIOS password, turn off booting from USB, sign your Grub bootloader, import the signing key, use full disk LUKS (including boot) via the Grub-Luks unlocking module (you need a key for your partition in your initrd too if you don't want to enter your password twice) and enable TPM. In that setup, even if someone stole your laptop, it would be unusable, short of opening it up and fully resetting the BIOS/UEFI to its factory state, correct? (My laptop has full-disk LUKS, a BIOS/UEFI password and doesn't boot from USB, but I still have TPM disabled and haven't signed my Grub bootloader yet.)
- yuhong 10y agoIt is about tracking stolen laptops I think.
- gcb0 10y agoremind me a single time the police went after your stolen device even if you have gps tracking. this is a clear "think of the children" excuse.