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June 19, 2006
Remote Destruction of Data
Author.::.Phil
While hanging about in the internet I found one very interesting brief article - “Remote Destruction of Data", which solves the following intriguing task:
Can you set up a Mac so that if it is stolen, you can easily erase the contents of its hard drive from a remote location if the stolen Mac is connected to the internet?
The answer is surely positive. The following algorithm is underlying in the wee script, the reference above sends to:
The script, executed on the Mac, checks your website for the purpose of finding a kind of file “youve_been_stolen". If such a file exists, the script completes the rm -rf command and, for example, can message that the notebook has been stolen.
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Posted by Xena at June 19, 2006 4:55 PM
