In the event of theft - Absolute can track, locate, and recover stolen mobile devices while providing users with the ability to secure their device and the data it. The BIOS component means that and HDD replaced/wiped with Windows re-installed gets the LoJack install back silently, then phones home to the LoJack call centre. 2 new sales for Sony they wouldn't have otherwise had. Absolute LoJack provides consumers with the power of our Computrace technology so they can remotely manage a mobile device regardless of its physical location.
The software agent can survive operating system re-installations, hard drive reformats. The Dell system (for Dell laptops) is typical and instructive: Computer will ship with the Laptop Tracking and Recovery software agent and a persistence module embedded in the BIOS. in the Sony store where I fattened-out my credit card to the tune of one new Sony Vaio, he told me I was the 2nd customer in that day to be replacing a stolen machine. Some laptops are equipped with 'GPS tracking' but there are conditions. However, we live in the real world, and as I chatted with the sales rep. You're basically not going to bother touching that machine are you? Well that's the hope anyway. Right now it won't stop anybody stealing my laptop, BUT imagine if every laptop had it, and also had a little red LoJack sticker on the lid that meant - Hey!, this machine has BIOS-enabled software recovery, and no matter if you steal it, replace the HDD, and rebuild the machine, it will STILL phone-home and a team of people will STILL be reporting your location the local police. subscription and downloaded and installed it to my brand-new F22. I like the idea of LoJack, I have paid for a 3 yr.
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Incidentally the only reason I did not chose a Dell over a Sony on this occasion was not from some blind loyalty to Sony, it was because the XPS Dell Laptops all had poorly designed chassis that made accessing the HDD crazily difficult (I swap the HDDs in my laptops around from time-to-time to test my recovery images and sometimes to upgrade or test SSDs). And Dell DO have the LoJack embedded BIOS option in some of their products as well. I hope that Sony do take note and embrace this type of software, perhaps offering it as a purchase option as Dell now do. Laptop theft is rife, and a product with embedded security would positively influence my, and many others I am sure, purchasing decision. Thank you Thalamus, I appreciate you asking your contact Sony for me.
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