You lock your house, car, and desk at night. But how many of us lock our laptops up?

We’ve seen and heard a string of recent laptop thefts, leading to major “privacy” breaches. After a few recent high-profile arrests, it makes me wonder, what were the thieves after?

Seems that in many cases they were after the hardware, and didn’t know a thing or two about decrypting hard drives. Now I know, they could go on to sell these items to folks who knew how to crack such security measures, but our innocent laptops don’t have to be put in this situation to begin with.

Companies spend lots of money to buy locks for everything else, why not laptops? An encrypted hard drive is not going to protect you from a broken window and two fast feet. Laptop locks are cheap, and putting one away in your locked desk is even cheaper.

Not only good advice for work and home, but all of those college kids out there with open dorm room doors.

This entry was posted on Friday, August 25th, 2006 at 2:29 pm by Anil Polat and is filed under hardware. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.