David Honig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> When you read about losing laptops in Los Alamos (and London), you have
> to wonder: why don't those folks encrypt their drives? They
> are somehow thinking physical security is sufficient, and slacking
> off otherwise.
The recent uproar over two hard disk drives disappearing from the
Department of Energy's care makes me wonder this too. If they have any
sense, they do have physical security, but also *never* allow
unencrypted data to touch the drive. If it's stolen or misplaced, they
won't have to worry that much about it, though they'll obviously want
to make sure it doesn't happen again.
More than likely, the hard drives in question were encrypted and the
media just got it wrong again. The laptop drives may or may not have
been. If the laptops were used by lusers who just like to turn the
machine on and go without any attempt at security whatsoever, then
there's a major problem. Still, I doubt that the government is really
*that* incompetent when it comes to compu---nevermind, they probably
are.
