Why one should be careful about losing stuff

[Katahu]

http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0, ... =rss.index

[bbstackerf]

My whole life - work and personal - are on my Ipaq and flash drive. I don't know what the hell I would do if I lost them. The flash drive pretty much stays in my puter at work and only comes out on the weekend, but my Ipaq goes everywhere with me and I mean everywhere.

Scary how we are slaves to technology these days.


Keni

[beefhole]

My dad was just talking about this the other day-his laptop, blackberry, phone, etc. all contain extremely sensitive information that people do occasionally try to get their hands on (cut throat pharmaceutical industry, I tell you). He showed me the digital password reciever thingy he carries around-his password changes every ten minutes.  He's constantly reminded not to lose anything.  The corporate world is definitely fully aware of this problem.

[Craig.]

Simple solution. You dont keep everything important on one harddrive. Or other form of storage system.

[Saitek]

NOTHING on my computer could be of use to anyone.

[H]

NOTHING on my computer could be of use to anyone.

Actually, NOTHING on your computer would be of NO use to YOU: you'd just have a blank screen.

[IVANOW]

There is a safety chain made for a Briefcase.
It could probably be applied to a Laptop.

[Katahu]

There is a safety chain made for a Briefcase.
It could probably be applied to a Laptop.

There are such chains available. I was shopping at the local BX here on base and saw a handful of them.