Jason Stamper's Blog: January 2008 Archives

MoD laptop theft: now at last government may act
January 23, 2008

Laptops get lost or stolen. It’s a fact of life, as sure as you never get a pair of socks out of the washing machine.

So for all the procedures in place about securing laptops to desks when in the office; not leaving them in cars or in the back of cabs while out of the office; or even about the levels of sensitivity of information that should be stored on laptops in the first place; none of these can ultimately prevent laptops getting lost or stolen.

The only answer now, indeed the only answer has always been, that any laptops containing sensitive information should be securely encrypted.

Finally, even the government and its various departments are starting to accept this. But this realization has come at a very heavy price: you only have to look at how HMRC lost two discs with 25 million people’s records on them, or the even more recent loss by the Ministry of Defence...

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One Laptop Per Child says good riddance to Intel
January 07, 2008

As we reported earlier, Intel has withdrawn its seat from the One Laptop Per Child's (OLPC) board of directors, as a result it says of recent demands from the OLPC to quit its own competing project, called Classmate PC.

Classmate PC is Intel's low-cost mini-laptop, geared for school children. Intel confirmed that the OLPC board asked it to stop supporting non-OLPC platforms.

The chipmaker initially resisted joining OLPC, which currently distributes a $200 mini-laptop called XO that is powered by a microprocessor from Intel's chief rival Advanced Micro Devices...

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