I have to protect a company development laptop that contains important corporate information that I do not want to be read by anyone when it travels around the world. What I am looking for is a simple mechanism that during the Windows 2000 system boot up a prompt is given to enter a password. If the correct password is entered the system boots up as normal (eg. BIOS type password security) however if an incorrect password is entered the whole hard drive contents are deleted permanently by either silent formatting or silent fdisking the partitions (eg. cannnot be recovered ever!) Should an incorrect password by entered a screen prompt that would hide that the drive is being deleted would be good, a message to say that the password is being checked. Also a limited number of entry times would be good. Anyone got any clever ideas?
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Thats a little too "James Bond" for me..
why not store the sensitive data on a CD that only the people intended to see it uses? Without the CD - the laptop is useless and vice versa.
You can also look into the fingerprint-scanning technologies on the market already. If you send a laptop all over the world with sensitive corporate info on it - no matter what security measures you take - the info can be retrieved.
Either use the disk, or settle for BIOS & NT security and take your chances. It cant be too sensitive if the laptop is freely travelling the world with normal security as-is. Please let Tek-Tips members know their posts were helpful. Thanks!
Pbxman
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why not store the sensitive data on a CD that only the people intended to see it uses? Without the CD - the laptop is useless and vice versa.
You can also look into the fingerprint-scanning technologies on the market already. If you send a laptop all over the world with sensitive corporate info on it - no matter what security measures you take - the info can be retrieved.
Either use the disk, or settle for BIOS & NT security and take your chances. It cant be too sensitive if the laptop is freely travelling the world with normal security as-is. Please let Tek-Tips members know their posts were helpful. Thanks!
Pbxman
Systems Administrator
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