Mr.Scrooge <maximilian_bianco <at> yahoo.com> writes: > Are that many people really that careless with their laptops? I think people worry too much about > encrypting laptops. If a company has it's shit together they are not letting you go home with > sensitive info(They should be preventing cd burning and removable media,disabling such actions Well let's analyse this a little. Let's say you have no company sensitive data at all but of course you have gpg keys, ssh keys, passwords and so on unless you are very unusual. Let's say you now pop out to the shops to get a bit of food, and during the time you are away your home is burgled. Among the items stolen is your laptop on which are your passwords, gpg keys, ssh keys etc etc and your laptop was not encrypted - you have been careful of course but this is a most unfortunate event that would never happen to you! Let's take another scenario - you are in your sitting room - you have everything locked down and your home is secure. You return to the kitchen 10 minutes later to find that the expensive camera you bought last week has been stolen from the kitchen table by a burglar who silently broke into your kitchen in the short time you were in the other room in your own home.... can't happen? Well exactly this happened to a friend of mine! Maybe having disk encryption would mean that in the event that a scenario such as the above happened and a laptop was taken from you then you might sleep a lot easier at night both before and after such an event?
