On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 1:52 PM, Aditya MJ <[email protected]> wrote:
> I guess the police can use the MAC address to identify the laptop on > recovering it, making sure of the ownership - which is probably why they > asked for it. Tracking down a laptop using a MAC address does not seem > practically possible for the police or anyone... it is very easy to change > the MAC address temporarily while connecting to the internet, and > marginally > more difficult to change it permanently. > -- > http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers > Today, when I contacted to service center, they suggested me "*to have BIOS/Machine level password. without password the laptop is useless and he has to come to service center* and we would have catch it" is it true ?? any thought on this "prevention is better then cure" -- ┌─────────────────────────┐ │ Narendra Sisodiya ( नरेन्द्र सिसोदिया ) │ R&D Engineer │ Web : http://narendra.techfandu.org │ Twitter : http://tinyurl.com/dz7e4a └─────────────────────────┘ -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
