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Story: Boeing loses another laptop holding employee info

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Posted by: 23201 (Wednesday 20 December 2006, 12:03 AM)

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Absolutely!

I agree entirely - if the machine wasn't intended to be taken out of the office, it should have been a bolted-down desktop, with no writeable external devices, at least.

But I'd go further - if this data is confidential - which it demonstrably is - then why is it on a user machine anyway? It should be on a secure server, fully encrypted to maiximum AES depth and access controlled.

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