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Protecting Your Data from Laptop Lifters

Beware of data thieves! Data thieves want to find your computer's passwords. They want to locate credit card numbers, which they can sell. Further, they can use your own computer to order stuff on the Internet or make transfers from your online bank account to their own. Unfortunately, password protection really doesn't stand in the way of most clever data thieves. They know all the tricks. They have all the tools. At best, you're merely going to slow them down.

The BIOS password
Your laptop's setup program lets you affix a password on the system, a password that you need to provide well before the operating system loads. This is the first line in data defense, but it's largely ineffective because of two things:

* If you forget your password, you're screwed. So many people march forward with this BIOS password scheme, then they end up leaving the laptop on 24 hours a day and over time, they forget the password. That's bad.

* Thieves can circumvent the BIOS password because so many people forget it. Just about every manufacturer -1 some method of overriding the password, which essentially nullifies the reason for having it in the first place. Protecting Your Data from Laptop Lifters by dummies.com: Yahoo! Tech Linked by LT Hacker








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