Life on the bleeding edge

[CLIFFORD ILKAY]

On Saturday 30 September 2006 13:20, Howard Gibson wrote:
>    I did not set up a /home partition on my laptop.  If someone
> steals it, I want to maximize the difficulties of getting it to do
> anything, much less provide access to all my files.  With a little
> luck, the Red Hat sticker will get the point across, ahead of time.
>
>    If the thief can get into the BIOS and make it boot from install
> media, they are going to have to blow away my root partition, and
> any personal information I chose to leave on it.

Wouldn't taking the hard drive out and attaching it to another 
machine, which boots from another device, circumvent the BIOS lock?
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Clifford Ilkay
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