Yesterday I made a post about how laptop theft is starting to become a very lucrative crime here in the Philippines. Basically thieves smash the windows of cars and grabs whatever they can find inside the automobile. This happens almost 3 times a week in Katipunan alone. Whistler left a comment on that post pointing to another blog entry talking about the latest security feature of Lenovo (IBM Laptops). You can actually use your mobile phone to permanenty disable your stolen laptop! More details after the jump.
In the next couple months Lenovo will be rolling out a BIOS update for its Montevina laptop users which enables remote shutdown and subsequent encryption via text message. The tech relies on the laptop having a WWAN connection and activates when a custom string, defined by the user and sent from a single, paired phone, is received. In other words, you can choose whatever you want as the shutdown signal, from a cool “Kill” or “Self-Destruct” to a long, patronizing multi-part message about the thieving youth of today.
Constant Secure Remote Disable, as it’s called, isn’t being touted as a first line of defense. In fact, quite the opposite: “This is kind of like a morning-after pill, I guess” said Stacy Cannady, Lenovo’s product manager for security and apparently the only person at Lenovo to miss the company-wide memo about not using awkward reproductive metaphors in PR. The update will be available as a free download for compatible laptops in the next few months. [Crave]
Source: Gizmodo
Reminds me of Mission Impossible. “This blah will self destruct in 15 seconds.”
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dadaman on December 3, 2008
sumasabog?? kewl..!!
- John Lagmay - on December 3, 2008
Ang tanong covered ba ng warranty yan? hahahaha
tatsulok on December 3, 2008
bagong paraan para makipagayos sa X mo this xmas!
boy: pare ito gift ko sayo laptop, bati na tayo ah?
girl: wow, ang sweet mo naman, kung ganito ka pa dati eh di sana di tayo ngkahiwalay.. thx! mwuah!
boy: hudas kang @&*!@$!!?? tit tit tit! MERRY CHRISTMAS >:)
tatsulok on December 3, 2008
oopss ,”pare” pala naitype ko hahaha! XD
cool if sumasabog talga!
Dish on December 3, 2008
they can still sell the parts and I believe hackers will come up with a crack
sniff on December 7, 2008
ma-replace kaya ng bago pag sumabog na? kung under warranty pa..
hahaha..
frietz on December 9, 2008
Pasabog mo nalang sa pasko tapos hinge ka kapalit para pasabog ulit sa new year =)
workingdude on December 10, 2008
meron din for nokia phone na ganito. send ka lang ng txt maactivate na “anti cellphone theft” yung software na yun
http://www.google.com.ph/search?hl=en&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&hs=adF&sa=X&oi=spell&resnum=0&ct=result&cd=1&q=anti+theft+software+nokia&spell=1
kaso pang s60 nakikita ko e