[quote threadkiller]P.S.- I think lojack makes a product for laptops, might want to consider it for the new one,assuming there will be a new one.[/quote]
There is. It ‘phones home’.
[quote briansd1]That idiot thief should have reformatted the harddrive and reinstalled the OS.[/quote] They still won’t be safe. This LoJack sits in the BIOS. Because it is in the BIOS, it can also control who/what can reflash the BIOS.
If you have sensitive info that you don’t want them to see, you might want to look at PGP and/or TrueCrypt.