on 1/8/2008 11:00 AM Bill Campbell spake the following:
On Tue, Jan 08, 2008, Marko A. Jennings wrote:
On Tue, January 8, 2008 9:14 am, Robert Moskowitz wrote:
<snip> > So what options do we have for encrypting partitions. <snip>
I found this article helpful: http://www.redhatmagazine.com/2007/01/18/disk-encryption-in-fedora-past-pres...
One could also set up a script that automatically sends an e-mail message when the laptop boots, and perhaps periodic e-mails from cron. This could provide at least the IP address from which the mail was sent which could help locate it.
If I was in the business of stealing laptops, I would be looking at the system unconnected to the world so as to look for traps like this. Most laptops are stolen for the hardware value.