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  • Reviewed by PurposefulStride on Aug 09, 11:15am

    I never understood why Macs rely on security through obscurity, though my hunch is that Steve Jobs believes making that sort of information transparent shouldn't be important to the users of his computers. Look at this procedure: "[to set the password,] modern Macs requires you to boot into Open Firmware (when the computer loads, press Command + Option + o + F) and typing 'password'...The only way to forcibly remove this password is to change the amount of RAM in the computer and then clear the PRAM three times...a piece of trivia that a common thief is unlikely to know." On a non-Mac PC, nothing is obscured--you're presented with the option to enter the BIOS by on-screen text, and the BIOS has an easy-to-use graphical system. Its been that way for fifteen years, at least.

  • Reviewed by lummox99 on Nov 10 2008, 2:37pm

    This actually sounds like fun! I doubt I'll ever get to use this info, but it would be a blast :)

  • Rated by k00pa on Nov 09 2008, 1:54am

    Hmmmm, I think I will protect my laptop...

  • Rated by mustafaturan1 on Oct 30 2008, 12:33am

    not seems so practical but worth trying.. (encrypt your hard-disks and backup your data folks)

  • Rated by jheiselman on Oct 24 2008, 2:25pm

    I think this gives me enough of a starting to work on this.

  • Rated by Kaose on Oct 17 2008, 8:21am

    This gives me some ideas...

  • Rated by StumblerDown on Sep 21 2008, 1:29pm

    nice one

  • Rated by FlameWarrior on Sep 20 2008, 9:57pm

    Nice tips, though not actually incredibly helpful. The best way to protect your laptop is to not let it get stolen.

  • Rated by jungleselecta on Sep 04 2008, 6:16pm

    In order to be truly effective, it needs to be embedded in the boot sector or inside a hidden partition. Thieves usually dont use linux and at the first site of it would have windows installed.