Miguel Guhlin and Absolute Software’s CEO John Livingston had an incredibly detailed discussion about CompuTrace, which is now posted on MGuhlin.net

Miguel had done a project about protecting deleted files, and had given some misleading information about Absolute Software’s CompuTrace product. John Livingston then did the right thing, which was to contact Miguel and start a conversation.

What ensued is a very positive discussion about CompuTrace, tracking technology, and how these are positive forces in schools. The conversation is a little technical, going into the potential technical skill of laptop thieves in removing CompuTrace, essentially nullifying it, but it is a positive discussion.

I also want to point you to the comment on the post, which was written by a happy CompuTrace customer who purchased the product for over 800 laptops in a school. This kind of unsolicited customer feedback is always great and makes for a great case study:

“I heard about Computrace, and purchased it for all our laptops. We announced that all laptops now had software that would be able to locate these lost or stolen machines. After that, our losses from incidents like I’ve described dropped to ZERO!” - Steven Eisenberg

Tags: computrace, laptop security, education security, laptops in schools, laptop theft, thieves, boot-n-nuke