Brice Schneier talked about how one should secure your own personal computer against uninvited intruders from the Internet. Many pure gold here, straight from one of the best security experts in the field. You might think of it as being too paranoid, but these tips might save your life one day.
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Dec 14 2004
Laptop security: Keep your laptop with you at all times when not at home; treat it as you would a wallet or purse. Regularly purge unneeded data files from your laptop. The same goes for PDAs. People tend to store more personal data–including passwords and PINs–on PDAs than they do on laptops.
Eek…don’t think I could do that – take my laptop with me everywhere I go! I haven’t got one yet, but am planning on getting an iBook from Next Byte.