Do Leave Home Without It!

It looks like the Y2K consultants that have recycled in security are still producing useless reports on unlikely events. Your computer is probably as much at risk of being stolen when left alone at home or at the office than when it is traveling with you.

What will it be next? Erase your brain before leaving the office?

This security thing is turning from extreme annoyance to total joke without providing any useful results. I don't feel safer than ten years ago. This is just the same scare tactics that earned billions to the Y2K consultants.

Why don't we learn?.

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I also really find this type of ploy humorous and annoying. In all reality, if the people really want the information, they are going to find a way to get it. Whether we are using/ taking out information abroad, or keeping it at home. There are lots of intelligent people out there that can break security counter measures. Some do it for fun because they can, and people say that they can't and it provides a challenge. Others break the security for more sinister measures. Try as we may, where they have a will, they will find a way. I don't know what part of "World Wide Web" they don't comprehend, but unless you have multiple levels of IT and security working on your payroll, you would most likely, A: Not have an idea your information was comprimised, B: Not have any means to stop it, C: Not be able to do anything once it has happened. This can be related to the "Identity Theft" craze that is sweeping the nation.

I could see the "homeland securty" worry being a more pertinent issue if you worked for the government and there was possibly some sensitive information on your device, and it falling into the wrong hands could jeopardize the integrity of an issue. But besides that, outside of sensitive corporate data there appears to be no real issue.

It seems that as stated earlier, for most americans, there is as much a risk from someone breaking into our house, or car, to steal it for resale then there would be from people using it to gain information on something.

The last little tidbit, I promise. If the information is so important, that there is such an issue that the posibility exists that it could get into the wrong hands, I belive there is some sort of hardware security, like HDD locking, fingerprint scans or USB dongle that would more than likely be implemented to protect the data. As it is seen from the article. The Govt. is paranoid, and typically goes overboard protecting its own behind above and beyond what is typically necessary.

Thanks for the read,

Ben M. soon to be user BRMiusMAXimus