You leave your laptop turned on and out of your immediate reach? Geesh. I would NEVER leave my laptop anywhere that I didn't have it in eyeshot. It was the whole reason I got one.
Well, it's rather tacky to turn off the laptop, unplug it, etc., just to lug it into a boardroom. Not impressive.
As you might imagine, I have a full suite of programming tools on the laptop, including MS Office Pro and VB Pro, both of which are worth about $500 apiece - I'd sure hate to lose them to a malicious cracker, or someone who would like a personal copy of my source code for their own use, or who just wants to "borrow" my secret key for awhile.
Business must be good, you are more worried about somebody stealing a $500 dollar program than a several thousand dollar laptop?
Oh, I'm not worried about the laptop walking off, I'm worried about the software I've written walking off...
What do people recommend as the solution for this? Some sort of IDEA-based or triple-DES-based device driver would seem to be the answer to this, but I'm not sure which is the "best" (most reliable, fastest, easiest to set up) one to use. I like the sound of Michael Sattler's encryption driver for the Mac, but alas, I'm running MS-DOS :(
Try Lo-Jak so that when your laptop goes a wanderin' you can find it....:)
I've never had anyone even attempt to rip off the laptop, but I've had people ask for "free samples" of the prototype code... -- Ed Carp, N7EKG Ed.Carp@linux.org, ecarp@netcom.com 801/534-8857 voicemail 801/460-1883 digital pager Finger ecarp@netcom.com for PGP 2.5 public key an88744@anon.penet.fi ** PGP encrypted email preferred! ** Cop: "How many beers have you had tonight, bro?" Suspect: "Seventy." -- from the TV show "Cops"