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Author:  pcernie [ Tue Nov 17, 2009 12:09 am ]
Post subject:  Voters' details on stolen laptop
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/beds ... 363514.stm

Quote:
"It is troubling that the data was on a portable machine and it was accessible for someone to walk off with it."


Quite :oops:
Author:  bobbdobbs [ Tue Nov 17, 2009 9:11 am ]
Post subject:  Re: Voters' details on stolen laptop
Quote:
The data was protected by two levels of security, the council said, but admitted there was a "slight risk" it could be accessed.


so that will be the windows login and prayer then.
Author:  pcernie [ Tue Nov 17, 2009 10:09 am ]
Post subject:  Re: Voters' details on stolen laptop
bobbdobbs wrote:
Quote:
The data was protected by two levels of security, the council said, but admitted there was a "slight risk" it could be accessed.


so that will be the windows login and prayer then.


Never underestimate the power of the Windows login - that prayer thing's a load of nonsense though :lol:
Author:  bobbdobbs [ Tue Nov 17, 2009 10:34 am ]
Post subject:  Re: Voters' details on stolen laptop
admin and admin then :lol: or just look under the laptop for the post it with all the passwords and logins.
Author:  l3v1ck [ Tue Nov 17, 2009 10:41 am ]
Post subject:  Re: Voters' details on stolen laptop
Why are these things never ever encrypted?
Author:  nvj1662 [ Tue Nov 17, 2009 1:09 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Voters' details on stolen laptop
l3v1ck wrote:
Why are these things never ever encrypted?

In case they loose the Post-It stuck under the laptop. :(
Author:  paulzolo [ Tue Nov 17, 2009 5:10 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Voters' details on stolen laptop
l3v1ck wrote:
Why are these things never ever encrypted?


My guess - I bet no one knows how to do it. Despite the IT support guys being able to do it, who knows how diluted this knowledge gets the further away the machine gets from them.

My other half was wondering how she could protect her work lap top the other day. I said to ask the IT coordinator, who is a seagull manager - you only see him every so often and he craps all over everything. So the first job is to find him and see if he actually knows. If not, I guess we’ll be looking it up on Microsoft’s support site some time.
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