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If your Social Security #, address, banking details ... were on a laptop in a commercial or Govenrment body, wouldn't you like that? I sure would.

And if I were the CEO or CIO of a body that had lost a laptop with personal client or commercial data, I think I'd like this protection.]]>Feb 20th 2008 1:11PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/20/virtuitys-backstopp-destroys-data-if-laptop-leaves-dmz/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/20/virtuitys-backstopp-destroys-data-if-laptop-leaves-dmz/Feb 20th 2008 8:58AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/20/virtuitys-backstopp-destroys-data-if-laptop-leaves-dmz/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/20/virtuitys-backstopp-destroys-data-if-laptop-leaves-dmz/]]>Feb 20th 2008 11:29AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/20/virtuitys-backstopp-destroys-data-if-laptop-leaves-dmz/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/20/virtuitys-backstopp-destroys-data-if-laptop-leaves-dmz/
1. Grab laptop
2. Open laptop
3. Yank out hard drive
4. Leave
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I.e. 'Lost' Laptops with government data.]]>Feb 20th 2008 10:54AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/20/virtuitys-backstopp-destroys-data-if-laptop-leaves-dmz/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/20/virtuitys-backstopp-destroys-data-if-laptop-leaves-dmz/
1)It doesn't self-destruct just because it's moved - unless you set it up to do that.
2)Of course you can circumvent it - if you know it's Backstopp-protected - by taking out the battery and then the hard-drive. Or jumping into your nearest Faraday Cage. So that's what proportion of opportunist thefts and accidental losses, exactly? 1%? And why would you advertise your protection strategy? Do you publish your burglar alarm diagrams?
3) Yup, it's a bugger if your data is wiped and you didn't actually lose it; just thought you had. But as a corporate user, you'd better damn well have an automatic back-up policy, especially if you've got my personal or citizen data on there.
4)What's best: no protection because there's no 100% guarantee, or the best you can get right now?

This is a good idea and deserves support, I suggest.]]>Feb 20th 2008 1:13PM