A software-based theft recovery and data security service for laptops. Most applications these days will have an option to report usage correlated to IP and a

A software-based theft recovery and data security service for laptops. Most applications these days will have an option to report usage correlated to IP and a unique identifier. In theory, any of them could be used to track a stolen machine, however I was surprised to find something that did this come pre-installed at the BIOS level. via swolchock in another thread: (http://news.ycombinator.org/item?id=2018777 http://news.ycombinator.org/item?id=2018777) Did some digging, and LoJack security vulnerabilities were detailed at BlackHat 2009: https://www.blackhat.com/presentations/bh-usa-09/ORTEGA/BHUS.. https://www.blackhat.com/presentations/bh-usa-09/ORTEGA/BHUS.... https://www.blackhat.com/presentations/bh-usa-09/ORTEGA/BHUS.. https://www.blackhat.com/presentations/bh-usa-09/ORTEGA/BHUS.... "The Computrace anti-theft system also has the capability to read Bit-locked file systems on Windows Vista."