On Fri, Mar 4, 2011 at 9:48 AM, Kim Longenbaugh <[email protected]> wrote: > Even if you could get cooperation from whatever level of ISP was required, > the odds of the IP address remaining the same as what it was when the laptop > was stolen are slim to none, and slim left town a long time ago.
The IP address won't be the same, but it's not unheard of for a stolen laptop to show up on the Internet and report in to the mothership with the same VPN/managed antivirus/whatever that corporate IT deployed. People dealing in stolen laptops are often not computer savvy (shocking). So the thieves ignore the contents of the hard drive. They just swipe the shinny flat thing and sell it to a fence or pawn shop, who again ignores the software load. Then someone buys the obviously-hot laptop. They plug it in and power it up and scratch their head about the password prompt. (Unless the corporate luser wrote the password down on the keyboard or whatever). It then takes them a little while to convince their friend who's "good with computers" to crack the SAM and/or blow away the install with a new OS. Certainly, a firmware-based solution like Computrace would be a hell of a lot more reliable. :) -- Ben ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to [email protected] with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
