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Originally Posted by Piwoslaw
I think what JasonG meant was the people who later buy stolen items.
A laptop with tons of passwords can still have its drive formatted and sold with a fresh OS. Or sold for parts.
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Gotcha. Sorry about that, JasonG.
On my main laptop, I'm upgrading the drive, and will do TrueCrypt whole-disk encryption. BIOS passwords will effectively brick most laptops, but don't do anything to protect the drive.