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Phoenix Unveils Anti-Theft BIOS
linuxwrangler writes "According to articles at PC World, c|net, Internet Week and elsewhere, Phoenix Technology is introducing a new BIOS-based anti-theft system. Every time a TheftGuard equipped machine connects to the internet it pings a server at Phoenix which can instruct the machine to wipe its hard drive, report its location or disable itself. Given that most people don't want to have their every movement tracked and don't want someone else to have the power to wipe their drives, Phoenix figures that corporate clients are the prime customer. I just wonder who is liable when a company sells a surplus laptop on eBay but gets their inventory control screwed up and reports it as stolen..."
It sounds like a normal Windows install to me! haha!
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That make me think about feces and what it would be like to have a computer made of feces and how the keyboard would also be made of feces but dried fecal chunks of dinosaurs and how the fan blades inside also made of poop would lovingly blow the wonderful scent of poop all through the house and I would sniff it and think of articles like this. Why aren't computers made from poop? Would it not be cheaper minus the dinosaur dung but instead chicken dung purified from all bad contents?
Where are you gonna poo today?
I like the smell of it.
he wants his buttplug back.. can this PhoenixBIOS stuff be embedded into his teledildonic buttplug to prevent it from being stolen again? *_g_o_a_t_s_e_x_*_g_o_a_t_s_e_x_*_g_o_a_t_s_e_x_*
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i haven't had time yet to read this story though i feel i must comment.
debian already has an anti-theft BIOS. It was hacked in by the legendary joel "espy" klecker shortly before his untimely death waiting for "woody" to become stable. he was forced to run his kidney dialysis machine on the notoriously unstable "potato" "release", which as anyone running this dreadful abortion of an operating system knows, is riddled with bugs in critical system services, like SVCHOST.EXE for example.
try debian today!