I’ve always thought that computers could do more to protect themselves from theft. Even something as simple as full drive encryption, built into all hard drives, would at least prevent any thief from getting the data on a machine (and the data is usually worth far more than the machine itself). Apparently someone at Intel upped the ante; now if you steal the machine, you won’t even be able to use the hardware.

I’m not sure why they say it’s only good as “a deterrent against casual thieves.” Apparently they’re not doing this the way I would have, but I suppose that even cell phone signals aren’t available everywhere yet.

I love the logo for it, too. 🙂