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binaryspiralMay 9, 2007
TrueCrypt - awesome.Any company who send laptops out into the field without encryption and the policies to enforce users to use it - should be drawn and quartered.
jessebsMay 9, 2007
dead
dcerMay 9, 2007
This is so lame.The thief just boots a live cd and gets access to all your data. This is the same crap as the phone home programs. Just use encryption instead.
messiahMay 9, 2007
This is just another way of getting you to pay for your own lack of security and laziness. If I stole a laptop, the last thing I would do is hook it up to the net until I had either formatted it and reloaded windows (most likeley as I dont give a crap about your info), or If I did want your secrets, i would pull the drive out and clone it, then, find out whats on it using another PC (which if you hadnt been a lazy bastard and encrypted it, I shouldnt be able to do)
mikeonMay 9, 2007
Why are there so many people with IBM thinkpads who put Apple stickers on the center? Is it so that they can tell their computer apart from all the other IBM thinkpads that their coworkers or other business people carry around too?
jonbaysMay 9, 2007
Lenovo use the Utimaco SafeGuard hard disk encryption software too and this can also secure mobile data and removable media USB sticks drives CD's etc. There are two sides to this and most corporations want to secure the data from theft first as this is the biggest financial loss. The second thing they want to do is secure their network from access from an infected or stolen notebook which could be used to cause real financial pain. The laptop hardware is the easy and cheap bit to replace and its insured. Making the hardware hard to reuse isn't the biggest priority and any tech who can replace bios chips and hard drives can get one going although the new TPM chips do make this harder now. Vista with bit locker on a laptop with TPM chip is going to secure the data pretty well on its own from an individual user point of view just hard for an organisation to manage.
slapthemonkeyMay 11, 2007
Good article.
floodleMay 16, 2007
In reality, probably 1. Fire it up to see if it works, hoping that there's no passwordThe average laptop thief is a crack head looking to pay for his next fix, not a CS grad who always carries a bootable USB stick with DSL on it in his pocket.
floodleMay 16, 2007
If your PC has wireless and is set to "any" then most of the time it'll manage to connect itself.
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