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Lenovo and Phoenix Technologies will begin adding a feature to Lenovo notebooks that allows them to be disabled, or remotely killed, via a text message sent from a cell phone. The technology, called Constant Secure Remote Disable.

The new security feature will come embedded within the Lenovo ThinkPad BIOS, to work, however, the stolen or lost ThinkPad must be in range of the user’s GSM network. The new security feature can be activated with a simple text message command such as “Turn off PC” from a specified cell phone number.

The lockdown will happen immediately if the notebook is turned on or the next time the system signs on to a cellular network and from there the self-encrypting hard drive should take over to protect the computer’s data. User needs to enter a preset pass code after the notebook is restarted to reactivate the disabled PC . The service will be available in the first quarter of 2009 on select ThinkPad notebooks at no additional charge and will be supported worldwide wherever cellular phone systems support text message transmission. If the computer is out of cellular range, though, you’re out of luck.

The Combining features like built-in biometric fingerprint readers, full hard drive encryption and embedded security chips bring Lenovo ThinkPad notebooks offer the latest industry-leading PC security technologies. The new innovative and amazing Lenovo Remote Disable feature is slated to be available on select ThinkPad notebooks that equipped with mobile broadband by Q1 2009.