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Re:Notes on the Celebrity Data Theft by atmosx on Tuesday September 02, 2014 @06:21PM (#8260521)
> The policy at my previous employer (we handled a lot of extremely sensitive information), was pretty draconian: data never leaves a company desktop, laptop, or blackberry.

Really? And how do these devices inter-communicate if data never leaves from anywhere to anywhere?

Burying a laptop to the ground would make it safe enough to keep out the bad guys.

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Re:Notes on the Celebrity Data Theft by tripzilch on Wednesday September 03, 2014 @04:06AM (#8261958)
> Burying a laptop to the ground would make it safe enough to keep out the bad guys.

That will just drive the bad guys underground.

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Re:Notes on the Celebrity Data Theft by gnopgnip on Tuesday September 02, 2014 @07:13PM (#8260711)
You can use citrix or terminal services so the sensitive data never leaves the servers.
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Re:Notes on the Celebrity Data Theft by gaadd33 on Tuesday September 02, 2014 @09:32PM (#8261115)
Couldn't someone just screenshot the citrix or terminal services session while the user is using it?
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Re:Notes on the Celebrity Data Theft by rayiner on Tuesday September 02, 2014 @10:05PM (#8261197)
Sure, but that only gets you one screen of a sensitive document, and is a lot harder to do inconspicuously than to surreptitiously look at a file that a user saved to his personal laptop's desktop with the filename "Details of Unannounced IPO.doc."
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