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Home : May 09 2014 Computer News : Google hints at remote wipe, lock and locate features for Chromebooks

Google hints at remote wipe, lock and locate features for Chromebooks

May 09, 2014

Losing a Chromebook could be less troublesome in the future with the addition of remote device management tools.Signs of remote wipe, lock and locate features for Chrome OS have appeared in the latest dev channel version, according to Francois Beaufort. You can see these options by running Chrome with the experimental command line switch “--enable-consumer-management.”Unfortunately, these features don't actually work right now, so it's not worth the trouble of setting them up. There's also no guarantee that Google will even add remote device management tools in future stable versions of Chrome OS.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

Link: http://www.pcworld.com/article/2153541/google-hints-at-remote-wipe-lock-and-locate-features-for-chromebooks.html#tk.rss_all
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