What's the best dual boot theft recovery? (edit: was: honeypot)
The idea is that is that I have a dual boot linux/windows.
Where linux is secure and encrypted, and windows is the honeypot.
windows is the default boot option.
edit 2:
I titled this wrong and I worded it wrong, i'll try again later.
Next time : Murphy's law allways wins, assume my laptop will get stolen. And i want to recover it remotely.
I'm not changing my behaviour, I already lowered the likelyhood of theft by switching my macbook for a secondhand thinkbook.
Windows partition has no user password so they connect it to wifi, and it auto launches a tracker software on boot that tells you where it is.
However that means your laptop is gone if the fence decides to wipe it, and it having no password means it's easier to convince a second hand store that they own the laptop (as opposed to trying to sell a laptop and the clerk goes "unlock it so I know it's not stolen"), increasing the chance they wipe it.
On top of that, just because you know where it is (assuming geoposition is precise enough (it's not)) doesn't mean you can recover it. Even when you are sure it is somewhere the police won't help you.
Thieves may be stupid but they steal stuff that is left without supervision. Try taking better care of your devices and maybe a convoluted tracking system is simply never needed because your laptop won't be stolen?
I dont think honeypot is the right term here, the only situation i can see something like this being at all useful is for a border search where you have to unlock your computer to be searched, in which case you'll need to actually hide the fact that there is a second partition at all, my suggestion would be get a laptop that can support 2 internal drives, unplug one before you travel and have the second one be a generic windows install with some stuff to make it look used.