Good Morning,

Thanks for all the replies.

Firstly the concerns of misuse of this software please can you put forward how this software could be misused as I am not seing anyway that the software can be missued based up on what I have described so far.

1: The server checks authorisation of each machine every time before any connections
2: All paths, server addresses etc are hard built in so cannot be changed to go to a different location
3: The server will be hardened to the extreme and legal agreements in place to say that none of the hosting companies staff may access the machine and also an agreement presented to users that we will not view the data unless requested by them because of a theft

Secondly - As I have said before this software is purposly active all the time because once its been reported as stolen it might be too late and already wiped and gone back out the door etc. Therefore if it is always active there is more chance of catching the theif, they are likely to turn it on first to see if they can get on.

Thirdly. I was going to talk to manufactures to see if this is something they would be intrested in to put it in the automated recovery system therefore if the laptop was wiped using ASR the Anti-Theft would still function - however - the other side to this is would have to work before a license was put in and potentially without user knowledge. (See next point)


> To help with the Third point and the fact that many people like Trials I am thinking of possibly letting the software work for a short period (something like 3 days) before requiring a license. This was it can work with ASR to automatically work once wiped and if users wish to they can install it before purchase. - Can I have some thoughts on this one please?


Nearing the end, Hardware security is a good idea but its not something I can do perfectly and potentially supply to the masses. Unless it was incorporated in manufacture I don't think it would be viable. That sort of thing is more a manufacture security that they would implement. Maybe in the future when I am a big business I could afford to manufacture and sell them ready to use to laptop manufactures. We will see

Also with the great big label to say its protected...I mean come on, who would really want one of those on their laptops? I know many people that wouldn't... Ok I personally agree that would scare most people off and I have heard about a company doing it in the past but many home users would not want a big label on the lid of their laptop.


Lastly, Pino, The prices are yet to be confirmed I am looking at different hostings costs and what I need to do to cover my costs. At first I wouldn't say the pricing is expensive but its higher than what I would like it to be but I have got to cover my own costs so it will be likely that the pricing will something like as follows:

Setup: £20
Monthly: £10

Or I have options that would be a higher setup costs but something like £5 Monthly Cost.

If and when this software becomes popular and I can get it to 50/100 users then I will decrease the prices in steps and deccrease current customers fees at the same time so they are on the same pricing plan and I would like to get it as low as:

Setup £10
Monthly: £1
As I have said all pricing in this post is only an 'IDEA' of what the pricing will be nothing is set in stone yet.


Regards,
Max