# IT/Programming Help **URL:** \ **Category:** Shift518 Off Topic\ **Created:** [March 20, 2009, 1:49pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/it-programming-help/242959 "2009-03-20T13:49:02Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 19
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> [@Calling out DrDos](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/calling-out-drdos/15773/52): > > Yeah like said before. That can be worked around. You can install an OS without needing the bios password as long as the optical drive is set to a boot device prior to the hard drive. > > What would be sweet is a hard drive encryption program such as true crypt or something like that set to encrypt the drive at your command, only making it accessable to them if they bring it in to have the decrypted… but… then again you would only have to re-install OS over the encrypted drive if it doesn’t have CMOS security. > > Tough one to do on a non large programming project scale. Let me know how it turns out! Yea you def. have a good point. I did some additional logic last night and came up with another idea on top of the passwords. The software we are developing is also going to be able to track the customer PC’s. Basically, the PC will be scheduled to call into the host server at least once a day, or whenever it is hooked up to the internet. If the PC does not call in it goes into a report which will be viewed at the end of each week. If there is a PC that has not called in within a given time period then the client takes over from there and does whatever they have to do to find out what their customers are up to. --- _[View the full topic](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/it-programming-help/242959)._