Software Licensing Audit
20 Jan 2010
The computer can be confiscated as a material evidence and any permission of court for this purpose it is not required (the Russian Federation) see article 81 UPK.
Myth of the second.
«If to block computer loading, having established the password in BIOS, and checking to tell that you do not remember it, they can make nothing». Senselessly. The password in BIOS – not a barrier to the skilled expert to bypass it it is simple enough, there is a set of ways to make it. For example, it is possible to find on a parent payment a crosspiece for dump of parametres BIOS, it usually is near to the CMOS-battery or nearby to a microcircuit with inscription Dallas or Odin. If the crosspiece is blocked or soldered, to close at the switched off food for some seconds certain contacts of microcircuit BIOS enough – and all parametres together with the password will be dumped.
Myth the third. «And we will cipher the section of a disk containing a piracy software, and let suffer!» Yes, really, thus you can create to employees of an internal some problems. They should confiscate your computers and to spend any, probably, rather long time for decoding of the data. But on what you are going to work all this time?
That actually it is possible to make to secure itself at check ON
If to you yet do not send, but you are afraid of it
On the Internet the set of ways to make secure on a check case is offered. Here some of them:
First, you can try to change appearance of appendices, having disguised them under freely extended ON. However, qualified expert quickly will understand that here to what actually.
Variant number two. You can put on the computers as the second operating system freely extended Linux, and section with Windows to cipher and close by means of a hardware USB-key. At inclusion of the computer without an USB-key it will be loaded Linux, any signs concealed deeply in bowels Windows on a surface it will be visible not. However, if computers are confiscated, it will not rescue you -