This is irrelevant. LoJack (by Absolute) is in the BIOS. If you reformat, it reinstalls itself. Numerous sources can attest to this, but here's a generic refer

This is irrelevant. LoJack (by Absolute) is in the BIOS. If you reformat, it reinstalls itself. Numerous sources can attest to this, but here's a generic reference: https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/LoJack#LoJack_for_Laptops https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/LoJack#LoJack... As you mentioned, not everyone would know, nor have the capability to reformat. This is doubly so for steps I take with administrative passwords, firmware passwords, hard drive passwords, etc. to make it further difficult for the thief to reformat the machine. Pro-Tip: Leave a guest account, and have everything else encrypted. (Looking forward to OSX Lion's upcoming support for a browse-only guest account on the unencrypted boot partition when using filevault2)