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BackStopp: Wipe out important data from stolen laptops

Filed in archive Companies by gautam on February 21, 2008

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Items like laptop are always on the wish list of thieves and it is one of the most sought after device in the robbers' community due to the price they command in the market and the ease with which they can be disposed off. Though the motive of a robber may be to dispose off your machine but in the process you also end up losing your important data which may be perhaps useless to the thief or it might be misused by the person who purchases your stolen laptop.

In order to prevent unauthorized access to data in case it gets stolen a U.K based company has unveiled a laptop protection system dubbed as BackStopp which will automatically wipe out hard disk data in case the notebook gets stolen from authorized locations.

The Virtuity BackStopp servers keep a tab on the laptop and if it gets stolen from its authorized position the system deletes all the important information from it. In case the laptop is stolen in switched off position RFID tags are used to judge whether the movement was within the permissible parameters and in case that's not the case it will delete the important data and on completion of the process the complete log of deletions will be sent to the service center. In case a laptop has a webcam BackStopp can even capture images of the thieves without their knowledge and enable them to nab them easily. All this protection is available for $19 per month for a single laptop.


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