[Ti] Powerbook thieving - ComputerGuardian?

[Dr. Trevor J. Hutley]

At 18:32 -0400 27/4/04, John Mistretta wrote:
>I have no idea, does the Open Firmware password not work to lock 
>down the OS from being erased? What has been your experience, cause 
>I was thinking of locking mine down since my entire financial life 
>is on it. . .
>
>TIA
>
>On Apr 24, 2004, at 1:09 PM, Robert Nicholson wrote:
>
>>Well we all know how reliable that is.
>>
>>On Apr 23, 2004, at 3:06 PM, John Mistretta wrote:
>>
>>>I looked into it at one time and it explained that 
>>>ComputerGuardian's uses Apple's Open Firmware password to 
>>>effectively lock out anyone trying to reformat the drive.

I would also be interested in knowing a bit more about how this Open 
Firmware password is supposed to work, what we have to do, what is 
not reliable, etc.  I know nothing about it at all.

Trevor