Re: How can failed logon wipe hard drive



Larry Smith wrote:
I work in an IT department and we support a lot of laptops. We take all the
usual steps to protect the machines. We have been lucky and none have been
stolen yet.

The question is can a program be installed on high security laptops that
will wipe the hard drive after "X" number of failed logons?

If so how?


Why do you need the entire drive wiped? If it's a high-security system then all files should be adequately encrypted. If not then anyone who know's what they're doing can already access this data without logging on.



And anyone can used i.e. this site
http://home.eunet.no/~pnordahl/ntpasswd/
to reset the windows-password.

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Demmpa
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