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Re: [follow-up] Boeing fires employee whose laptop was stolen (fwd)
From: "B.K. DeLong" <bkdelong () pobox com>
Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2006 08:17:44 -0500
If you look through a lot of the dataloss articles, you'll see many media spokespersons claiming similarly that password protection is enough. Might be an interesting stat to track in the database. On 12/15/06, Roy M. Silvernail <roy () rant-central com> wrote:
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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Current thread:
- [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)