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DEL.ICIO.USA laptop computer that truly is secure
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
This may not sound like a huge deal to you, but news of a laptop with built-in security sure seems earthshaking to me.
Laptops are easy to steal or lose and there have been some major problems in the last few years when laptops owned by employees of database businesses and government have been stolen. All the data that was so carefully (we hope) guarded back at the office was easily accessible because it was also stored on the laptop hard disk.
I’ll link to the story about the new laptop here - the big deal of this story is the hard disk used in the laptop. Instead of securing the data with software, the information is encrypted at the hardware level. That makes getting to it darn near impossible. I hope that this same type security will soon be built into all laptop computers.
My own laptop wouldn’t be very interesting to thieves, unless they want to check up on how I’m doing in my favorite online game, Guild Wars. But even for those without highly sensitive data on the hard disk … who wants some crook looking through e-mail, family photos and such?
The company believes the system is so secure that - according to the article “any U.S. company that loses a laptop using the Seagate drive in conjunction with the launch security management system from Wave Systems, will not have to give public notification of the loss, even if the data is of a highly confidential nature.”
I see why companies would love that - but am not quite sure how a company can make that offer, safe or not it seems it would be up to the individual policies of the government agency or business involved. But - that said - it still seems like a really promising development.
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