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Re:Call Yourself A Hacker, Lose Your 4th Amendment Rights by everyone on Tuesday October 22, 2013 @10:20PM (#6596392)
Why is it not standard practice for people who work in security or anything remotely contentious to keep their work OS, programs, data and so on, on a usb stick that you can just hide somewhere when you are not working on it?
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Re:Call Yourself A Hacker, Lose Your 4th Amendment Rights by vidarh on Tuesday October 22, 2013 @10:36PM (#6596447)
Because people have a tendency to either think they're too good to get caught, or that they're not really doing anything wrong / anything anyone will go after them for.

Also, I'd assume we don't get to hear about the people that actually are too good, as they'd be more likely than most to avoid getting suspected in the first place.

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Re:Call Yourself A Hacker, Lose Your 4th Amendment Rights by rob05c on Tuesday October 22, 2013 @11:09PM (#6596582)
Also, laziness. Knowing proper protocol doesn't preclude procrastination. "I'll lock everything down tomorrow."
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