Hi team,
I searched the web but couldn’t really find anything about this topic.
Let me introduce myself, i’ve been using home assistant for a couple of months now on a RPi3 but i really wanted to step up my hardware.
So i decided to go with a Dell mini pc Installation.
Apparently the dell pc has an activated computrace (anti theft) security in it and it’s activated. I researched the web and decided to approach the company Absolute to remove the security patch. (Ive heard that it could potentially be a backdoor for malware etc).
According to the company the machine is not reported for theft and could be removed by them. But i have to do the final Step by permanently disabling the computrace in the bios. And here comes the fun part, I don’t have that option in the bios. So i approached the company again and according to them I need solve this with Dell but until then the option will stay activated. I don’t have any receipts etc so Dell can’t do anything for me.
I also researched on the internet but i got no where.
Here is my main question, again for security reasons because i am planning to put my camera feed etc on this system. i installed hassio directly on the hard drive so no VM etc. Does computrace (absolute) activate on hassio? According to many people on the internet it does activate on windows/mac/android and linux but I can’t find anything about having hassio as a main server.
Is anyone familiar with that?
Thank you!
