{"id":2162,"date":"2011-08-18T08:30:48","date_gmt":"2011-08-18T14:30:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress.reams.me\/?p=2162"},"modified":"2011-08-18T17:40:13","modified_gmt":"2011-08-18T23:40:13","slug":"my-lock-screen-message-on-os-x-lion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.reams.me\/?p=2162","title":{"rendered":"My lock screen message on OS X Lion"},"content":{"rendered":"

I added a “screen is locked” message (new to [OS X Lion](http:\/\/www.apple.com\/macosx\/) under System Preferences > Security & Privacy) to my laptop since I’m traveling. It says:<\/p>\n

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“Hard Drive is encrypted. If found, please contact 303-835-3512”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

This helps me get a few points across: the drive is encrypted so you can’t steal this to check your email and screw around, I want you to contact me (without explicitly stating there is a reward, or incentive to steal it), I am savvy enough to add a message like this so you think this is a risky laptop to steal.<\/p>\n

Do you think this communicates the right message? What would (do) you say on your lock screen?<\/p>\n

I’m afraid it may also suggest “don’t bother trying to hack this, just dump the hard drive and sell it” which would slow down any tracking or recovery efforts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I added a “screen is locked” message (new to [OS X Lion](http:\/\/www.apple.com\/macosx\/) under System Preferences > Security & Privacy) to my laptop since I’m traveling. It says: “Hard Drive is encrypted. If found, please contact 303-835-3512” This helps me get a few points across: the drive is encrypted so you can’t steal this to check […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gadgets"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.reams.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2162","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.reams.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.reams.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.reams.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.reams.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2162"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.reams.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2162\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2187,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.reams.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2162\/revisions\/2187"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.reams.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.reams.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.reams.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}