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Re: Ameriprise Loses Data on 230, 000 Customers and Advisers
From: der Mouse <mouse () rodents montreal qc ca>
Date: Sun, 29 Jan 2006 22:03:53 -0500 (EST)
On the other hand, laptops often go walkies, and if 10% of your desktops have unauthorized downloads of corporate data on them, it's likely the laptop percentage is closer to 20% (after all, many laptop users will do the extracts so they can work on the plane...)
There's a reason my laptop encrypts everything but the kernel and bootblocks. It won't even get as far as mounting / without the key, and that key is stored nowhere but my memory. And my live-backup of the disk backs up the ciphertext view. Letter agencies and big corporations could probably break the crypto, if they thought the data worth the resources. I have lots of lower-cost holes open to someone with that kind of resources, though, and I don't think very many casual - or even reasonably-good-cracker - laptop thieves will get very far. /~\ The ASCII der Mouse \ / Ribbon Campaign X Against HTML mouse () rodents montreal qc ca / \ Email! 7D C8 61 52 5D E7 2D 39 4E F1 31 3E E8 B3 27 4B _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.
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