[Dataloss] [follow-up] Boeing fires employee whose laptop was stolen (fwd)

[Roy M. Silvernail]

Gotta love this.  security curmudgeon forwarded:

> Even though the employee data was not encrypted, the laptop was turned 
> off. That means the person who stole the computer would not be able to 
> access the employee data without a password to open the computer once it 
> was turned on.

Wrong.  As I pointed out on my blog
(http://www.rant-central.com/article.php?story=20060914170634681),
that's purely a CYA statement with no basis in fact.

How long will these outfits be able to get away with this smokescreen?
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