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Re: [follow-up] Boeing fires employee whose laptop was stolen (fwd)
From: "Roy M. Silvernail" <roy () rant-central com>
Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2006 07:42:03 -0500
Gotta love this. security curmudgeon forwarded:
Even though the employee data was not encrypted, the laptop was turned off. That means the person who stole the computer would not be able to access the employee data without a password to open the computer once it was turned on.
Wrong. As I pointed out on my blog (http://www.rant-central.com/article.php?story=20060914170634681), that's purely a CYA statement with no basis in fact. How long will these outfits be able to get away with this smokescreen? -- Roy M. Silvernail is roy () rant-central com, and you're not "It's just this little chromium switch, here." - TFT CRM114->procmail->/dev/null->bliss http://www.rant-central.com _______________________________________________ Dataloss Mailing List (dataloss () attrition org) http://attrition.org/dataloss Tracking more than 143 million compromised records in 507 incidents over 6 years.
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- [follow-up] Boeing fires employee whose laptop was stolen (fwd) security curmudgeon (Dec 15)
- Re: [follow-up] Boeing fires employee whose laptop was stolen (fwd) Roy M. Silvernail (Dec 15)
- Re: [follow-up] Boeing fires employee whose laptop was stolen (fwd) B.K. DeLong (Dec 15)
- Re: [follow-up] Boeing fires employee whose laptop was stolen (fwd) Adam Shostack (Dec 15)
- Re: [follow-up] Boeing fires employee whose laptop was stolen (fwd) B.K. DeLong (Dec 15)
- Re: [follow-up] Boeing fires employee whose laptop was stolen (fwd) Chris Walsh (Dec 15)
- Re: [follow-up] Boeing fires employee whose laptop was stolen (fwd) Roy M. Silvernail (Dec 15)