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A note about a reward will also help chances of return too.
For companies who put their company name on the laptop, if you are a large organization where confidentiality is important (ie banks or government) in my opinion, putting your name on the laptop pretty much guarantees a snoop. Instead So if you do this make sure to counter measures setup.
If you're still figuring it out, instead provide a number for a generic department that does not answer the phone with your organization's name.
Lock Your Hard Drive
Native to most new modern hard drives is the ability to password protect the drive at the hardware level. Once the password is set, the hard drive will not initialize without the correct password.
- Even if you move it to another computer
- You cannot even format it... it just won’t initialize
Some Caveats
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