Protecting Your Data

from the convenience-over-security dept

A good article about how people have become much less careful with classified information now that it's electronic rather than hard copy only. The article goes through many of the examples of stolen laptops and stolen trade secrets. This is why every laptop should have some sort of biometric log in, and then a tracking device, so you can find it if it's stolen. Okay, so maybe that's a little extreme, but that's what I want on my laptop.
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    mhh5, 15 Jun 2000 @ 12:28pm

    Just more "common sense"

    Secrets are kept when the people who have them are actually concerned about losing the secrets. It's just that simple. No amount of biometric security will prevent stupidity or laziness. There's no such thing as a foolproof system. Fools are too ingenius to be stopped...

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