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-present-and-future/ > > 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. -- MailScanner is like deodorant... You hope everybody uses it, and you notice quickly if they don't!!!!