From PC World: Google is on a tear adding new security features to Chrome OS. A mere week ago, the company rolled out the ability to automatically unlock your Chromebook when it's near your Android phone, and now another long-anticipated feature is available. Chrome OS just got a basic remote lock feature—if your Google laptop is part of an enterprise or education deployment, that is.
On Wednesday, Google announced an admin console update, which Chrome OS evangelist François Beaufort publicized. The top feature in the update is a mobile-style remote lock feature. If you lose your laptop, you can now tell your IT department about it and they can lock your Chromebook.
Once a device is locked, all anyone will see when they open it up is contact information and a message stating that the device is locked.
If you're a regular old Gmail user this new feature is not available for you—at least not yet. It would be hard to imagine Google not rolling out this feature to everyone eventually, considering Android has offered a similar feature for about a year and a half. The remote lock is also pretty bare bones at the moment. You can only disable a device, and there's no option to remotely wipe any locally saved files, for example. Perhaps when more features roll out we'll see this trickle down to consumer level users?
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