On Wed, 2012-11-14 at 14:06 +0000, Victor Churchill wrote:
> Since this seems to be getting a bit frivolous, I favour the startup
> option that says 'Enter password or this machine will self destruct
> in: and the big red flashing "04:59" .."04:58".. "04:57"..
I seem to remember in "Mission Impossible" that it was just ten seconds.
Oh, hold on, my pencil's broken; Wait; wait! Noooo!
Erm, yes, right...
I guess if they're happy that they could recover from any unexpectedly
lost data, that a wipe on "Too many failed password attempts" might be
an alternative? That would help avoid malicious remote-wiping of normal
systems and would circumvent the issue of 'must be connected to wipe'.
I agree with Robin, though, on extracting the data .. the first thing
one does is take the drive out of a context where it can run. If
deliberately stealing data, I think one probably also makes sure it's
not connected to th'Internet.
Whether or how easily one can 'take the drive' out of a smart-phone or
tablet is another matter.
Gordon.
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