-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Peter Cohen wrote:
2. with regard to safety of laptops, if you mean that exec's are targets of robberies, than this further lends value i suspect of keeping everything on the network and having passwords to reach the network from the laptop, etc.... Nothing on the laptop but pics of the kids and mp3's. all downloaded legally of course... secure computing/safeword/etc.. to reach your remote files would seem like a good idea...
That sounds like good advise, however being the sibling of a former executive from the same company as the OP, I don't think that advice would, er... fly (bad pun). The problem isn't securing the data, it's educating the user... and that can't be done in the time between today and the next executives flight. Laptop security really sucks these days... this is certainly an area for a lot more focused thought. One could easily spend less than $1000 paying off baggage handlers to side-track laptops, boot them one time from a CD containing a rootkit installer, and put them on the original or next flight. Which exec would ever know what happened? - -Jim P. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFE3OtnMyG7U7lo69MRAu3uAJ0Q4O2SYUiBmg9CCKcImXxDAWTijwCeLcBC SxBtOx81VtZ24nzAWfIQyMA= =upUt -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----