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at 16:40:48 on Mon, 17 Nov 2008, Andrew Cormack <[log in to unmask]>
writes
>Unfortunately you need to deal with connections other than USB, some of
>which aren't amenable to the araldite "solution". Unless you're the kind
>of organisation whose office is a Faraday cage and removes all
>electronics at the door (and they do exist) then you already need to
>cope with bluetooth transfer between laptops and mobile phones :-(
Or even cameras/phones/MP3-players etc that connect by USB and have
plenty of spare data storage capability.
>Unless you can persuade your users that they don't need/want to take
>data home, they'll find ways to do it.
This is the crux. We need to ask why are people taking big chunks of
data offsite at all? It doesn't matter whether it's boringly inside a
laptop, or more trendily on a memory stick or larger USB external drive,
or burnt onto a CD. All of these have been embarrassingly "mislaid" one
way or another over the past year (or indeed much longer - it's just
"news" now when it happens).
Encrypting the data is a bit of red herring, if the user decrypts the
memory stick or CD onto their home PC, at which point it's free to
escape again.
--
Roland Perry
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