[liberationtech] suggestions for a remote wipe software for Windows?

[Bernard Tyers - ei8fdb]

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So the objective Kathy has mentioned is to:

"log into and delete the contents of the laptop's hard drive"

It would seem the contents of the hard disk is "more important" than the actual hardware.

In that case I would go for the encryption option. Yes it is some configuration, and time to wait until the disk is fully encrypted, but last time I did this for a work computer it took all of 4-5 hours to encrypt and was very reliable - the machine was dropped, put to sleep, woken up multiple times, and used very heavily. I would prefer relying on that rather than some OS level tool.

You have no guarantee any of these "track your device" tools will be successful, especially if they rely on the machine being powered up and connected to a network. 

Griffin, thanks for the link to Prey, it looks interesting. 

Bernard

On 3 Apr 2013, at 20:08, Scott Elcomb wrote:

> On Wed, Apr 3, 2013 at 2:51 PM, Katy P <katycarvt at gmail.com> wrote:
> What is easier for a lay person and least susceptible to a "smart" thief?
> 
> Despite what it says in my signature, I'm no thief.  That said, were I to steal laptop, the first action I'd take is to remove the drive before powering it up and connecting it to any network - especially the internet:
> 
> If I'm after the data, I'd want the drive sandboxed to prevent the original owner from doing exactly what you're looking to do.
> 
> If I'm after the hardware, I don't care about the data and would format the drive on another machine to avoid the hassles of trying to crack my way in to do the same thing (format the drive).
> 
> +1 for encryption from me.
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