Re: UC Berkeley Prof warning a class of students that the person who stole his laptop is in a heck of a lot of trouble....

[Alan Amesbury <amesbury () OITSEC UMN EDU>]

H. Morrow Long wrote:

> Price of stolen notebook PC:    $$ thousands
> Price of stolen data:                   $$ millions
> Value of this lecture:                  priceless
>
>        http://www.boingboing.net/2005/04/20/berkeley_laptop_thie.html


I mentioned this to a few friends, and one remarked:

    So the real moral of the story is, if you want to hire a professor for a
    research project, first ask him if he knows what a "backup" is.  Various
    follow-up questions might include things like, "what basic steps will
    you take to secure our $100,000,000 investment?"


Valid questions, indeed.


--
Alan Amesbury
University of Minnesota

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