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The problem of lost USB flash thumbdrives.
Sun, 05/07/2006 - 9:36am — daveA Centennial Software study found that 66% of owners of USB thumbdrives report losing them. Additionally 60% of those reporting loss say that the drive stored private company data.
While there is no simple solution to careless employees short of stapling or otherwise embedding the USB key into their body, there is a simple solution to protect the data on the lost media.
ENCRYPTION
Given how easy it is to use many of todays encryption tools, there is no excuse for carrying media that can be lost of stolen that is not encrypted. None.
Windows users should look into using something like TrueCrypt.
GNU/Linux users should look into using either a DM-Crypt or Loop-AES solution.
The only requirement to solving this problem is a little common sense.
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