Horse pucky. The first thing a smart thief will do is throw a cd in and format the hard drive. Only an idiot would bring it up and try to use it as is and only an idiot doesn't have their system password protected. Dumb, dumb, dumb...
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lo jack
I've heard the software is in the BIOS, so it may be harder to get to. Those that are interested will probably investigate it a little further rather than criticize things they don't know about.
ignorance
It's usually in a non-flashable part of the BIOS, and can also be in the interpartition space on the drive. In either case, formatting the hard drive does nothing to remove it.
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