On Thu, 2006-03-23 at 09:31 -0500, Daniel J Walsh wrote: > Received an FedEX from Fidelity this morning seems, one of their > laptops was stolen. On the laptop, was the Personal information, > including Social Security number, of everyone in the HP Retirement > plan (I suppose this includes DEC/Compaq and HP. They have us jumping > through hoops and going to Credit Agencies to watch for unusual activity. > Now if the system had been encrypted ... Now why was this data on a > laptop? I don't know. > > Laptops have becoming the standard machine for people, replacing the > desktop. We need to consider defaulting FC6 with encrypted filesystem > or at least homedirs out of the box. This should be a key feature of FC6. Or maybe corporations handling that kind of data need to do take protective security measures for their installations of operating systems. if I were in the same position I would, of course, use encrypted file systems - but to have that overhead for the default is a bit extreme. Sounds like the IT group in corporation needs to stop being so naive. -sv
