On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 11:05:10PM -0800, Alex Mandel wrote: > Ah yes, local encryption of important files would be good too. For this > there are software and hardware solutions. Note this also applies to > data stored on usb or external harddrives. You may remember some recent > Federal scandals where agency employees took home unencrypted hard > drives that were then stolen...
Then there's your computer exposing the data _for you_: http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2003/6/27/virus-leaks-files-from-university-hall/ "[Administrators'] personal correspondence -- including a memo concerning a case before the Administrative Board -- found its way to mere acquaintances. The administrative glasnost was not intentional, however, caused instead by a computer virus that swept across the Internet in early June and infected a number of University Hall machines. ... Harvard students reported receiving a variety of seemingly misaddressed, unusual messages... at least one message, sent from an infected machine on the second floor of University Hall and received by at least three Harvard undergraduates, contained a confidential memo [between the Secretary and Dean of the Faculty]." (Admittedly a 6.5yr old article, but it's always stuck in my mind as a great example of the dangers of computers and networks. For more fun, peruse: http://lugod.org/microsoft/index.php Especially: http://lugod.org/microsoft/index.php?filter=priv and: http://lugod.org/microsoft/index.php?filter=hole Over the last 10+ years, I've amassed nearly 700 articles in that list. Damn!) -bill! _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list vox-tech@lists.lugod.org http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech