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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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