begin  quoting Tracy R Reed as of Fri, Sep 15, 2006 at 11:07:40AM -0700:
> Stewart Stremler wrote:
> >Do you stick the post-its to the laptop in question?
> 
> Of course not. That would be silly.

Heh. That's what I see.

Laptops is loads of security, encryption, etc., and a post-it with the
passwords -- and sometimes a couple, with instructions -- on that oh-so
convenient bit below the keyboard and to either side of the trackpad.

>                                     I normally tell people to keep them 
> in their wallet and do not write the hostname of the machine or other 
> identifiable info on it. So far it seems to work.

I assume it's normally the case that one person gets _a_ laptop,
rather than a shared laptop taken by whoever is on travel at the
moment?

>                                                   I never see post-it 
> notes stuck to monitors or desks or laptops, users get secure passwords, 
> and they don't have to go to lengths to try to defeat our security 
> measures to get their jobs done.

I see a bigger disconnect between the security folks and the users than
you do.   You also have more users using a *nix system, don't you?

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