On 8/20/07, Bill Peck <bill@pecknet.com> wrote:
On 8/20/07, Jesse Keating <jkeating@redhat.com> wrote:
> On Mon, 20 Aug 2007 14:28:20 -0400
> "Colin Walters" <walters@redhat.com > wrote:
>
> > Right; this is the real solution to the stolen-laptop problem and I'm
> > all for it!
>
> Except if your session was logged in when it got stolen (seen those
> commercials about the pretty girl in the coffee shop?  (: ).  This is
> why I want some sort of session timeout (other than the screensaver) on
> how long these things sit unlocked for you to access them.

RFID ring that you wear ;-)  When your ring is out of range for the
laptop to read it locks your gnome keyring. ;-)

ok.. so it doesn't help if you don't have the ring or a laptop which
can read rfid..  darn.


Was playing with this over the weekend.  
http://blueproximity.sourceforge.net/

Not uber secure being based on bluetooth, but a neat concept.

Jon