By Will Sturgeon
Published: Tuesday 08 May 2007
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Name
John H Woods
Location
uk
Occupation
it
Comment
There is little excuse for the loss of a laptop (or memory stick, CD, DVD, tape etc) leading to an exposure of sensitive data.
Commercial products like PGPDisk (which is not prohibitively expensive), and free ones like TrueCrypt, provide fairly heavyweight data protection in an easy-to-use manner.
We could paraphrase Oscar Wilde: "To lose a laptop may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose data looks like carelessness"
We could also ask why sensitive customer data is EVER on such devices: what makes companies think we trust their staff anymore than the thieves to whom they may lose their laptop?
There is little excuse for the loss of a laptop (o...
John H Woods
Please be careful with percentages at relatively s...
Jeremy Wickins
It's not just the UK. In Switzerland my laptop and...
Robin Back
Seems an awful lot of laptops!! I am sure that th...
Chris Goodman
but how do these percentages compare with the rise...
Ayesha Bramwell
Robin, mine is exactly the same story at exactly t...
Rani
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Duh. eBay....
Marc Wilson
"Any idea if this can be recovered?"
Do you mea...
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