Yeah. Encrypted disks should never be smashed if they don’t have to be. Good thinking; dang, I’ll have to think about that. And don’t forget about bitlocker.
From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Ken Schaefer Sent: Sunday, November 25, 2012 11:40 PM To: ozDotNet Subject: RE: What type of Insurance covers using your own custom developer machine at work place? Your answer assumes that the only reason the disk would go missing is because someone specifically targeted the source code. What if it was just an opportunistic theft? Or if the disk stopped working, and you wanted to dispose of it? Whilst FDE would have its risks (e.g. you forget the key), it’s a relatively low cost way of mitigating a number of risks. Cheers Ken From: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of mike smith Sent: Monday, 26 November 2012 3:27 PM To: ozDotNet Subject: Re: What type of Insurance covers using your own custom developer machine at work place? On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 2:01 PM, James Chapman-Smith <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: Hi Arjang, I can't answer your question on insurance, but I can't help to think that you're potentially opening yourself up to legal issues. Even with checking things in to an external machine you're still keeping source on your personal machine – even deleting the files fastidiously would leave temporary and/or "undeletable" files behind. I would suggest that you employ something like TrueCrypt to do whole drive encryption (WDE) on your machine. I do that with mine and I know that it really doesn't matter if my machine goes missing. The harddrive just appears to be random garbage without my TrueCrypt password. If you do WDE you might find that you can happily leave the source on the machine without any risk. You're transferring the risk. http://xkcd.com/538/ I'd sooner leave it on the disk in clear. Just a thought. Cheers. James. From: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> [mailto:[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>] On Behalf Of Arjang Assadi Sent: Monday, 26 November 2012 11:51 To: ozDotNet Subject: What type of Insurance covers using your own custom developer machine at work place? Anyone having to use their own (custom build) developer machines for work know what type of insurance would be enough to cover the physical machine? The machine is personal property, but the work carried on it is for work. Checking out the code and checking it back in, never keeping anything that belongs to work on it. There is a separate machine that belongs to work that keeps everything on it. So at worst if the machine disappears it would be only the physical property and nothing intellectual. Thanks for ideas and recommendation Regards Arjang
