Terry Olaes
I Used to be the [H] News Guy
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At IDF yesterday, Intel showed off their solution for laptop anti-theft technology: the Kill Pill. It resides on the motherboard and combines traditional GPS and IP tracking methods with another, more drastic data protection measure.
The Intel Kill Pill can send a signal that scrambles the data on the drive, presumably through the deletion of encryption keys on the motherboard. Intel executives explained that technology resides on the motherboard, so formatting the drive wont help the criminal.