On Aug 18, 2011, at 4:46 PM, Derek Atkins wrote:
>
> You never know when your gear will be stolen. Phil Zimmerman told me a
> story once of how his laptop was stolen right off his lap while he was
> working on a train in Europe. They were at a stop and someone walked
> right by him, snatched the laptop out from under his fingers, and ran
> off the train!
Phil was careless.
Lemme put it this way: we have locks on our computer room doors to maintain
physical security. Why, then, should we treat portable equipment differently?
The answer is simple: we should not. The fact that some of us do is the
problem. WDD fails to begin to address the problem. Quite the contrary, it
*encourages* carelessness. "I don't have to worry, the whole disk is
encrypted." "I don't have to worry, I have a stolen laptop finder service."
"I don't have to worry, I have everything synced to ${CLOUD_STORAGE}."
An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. It's as true today as it was
250-odd years ago. Guess what I think WDD is?
--Rich P.
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