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Chief: Data on stolen police laptop safe because laptop needs power cord
- jfm3 15y agoAnother instance of "Anyone can create a security system that they themselves cannot defeat."
- JoeAltmaier 15y agoSounds like a small town. Probably the Chief is right - nobody there is going to go buy an obsolete power supply for an obsolete stolen laptop.
- rkon 15y agoIf they broke into a police cruiser to steal such an old laptop, there's a good chance they were after the data rather than the hardware. I don't think the risk vs. reward would justify that crime for your average thief.
- JoeAltmaier 15y agoYour average thief is a kid looking for thrills.
- GrandMasterBirt 15y agoQuestion: Why is the power cord so important? Can one not be made with cheap materials? I was waiting for a punch line but it didn't come.
- noelchurchill 15y agoThe only power cord you might need is for your electric screwdriver to open op the laptop, remove the hard drive, and plug it in to another computer.
- oreilly 15y agoAs opposed to removing the hard drive and reading the data directly...
- pdenya 15y agoyou can buy laptop charges that fit almost any laptop for $60 at walmart (i have one). If the thief realizes that the police records may be worth money i'm sure it would be no trouble at all to pick up a charger. Hopefully the laptop has a few more layers of security built in.
- route3 15y agoHere's to hoping that an OEM or software/solutions provider implemented some sort of local disk encryption before deploying to the field.
- dylancm 15y agoWell, at least the data is safe... I know I always keep my power cord and laptop separate for this very reason...* *Sarcasm
- ChrisArchitect 15y agowould love to find out if in fact there is some encryption layer on this thing, cause if not, that opens a whole other scandalous can of worms
- joshmlewis 15y agoI just don't know what to say to that except I kind of smiled and shook my head. Words can't express people sometimes.