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so if you were unlucky and got mugged you would be fired, sounds like a really bad policy...

• dpcan 13y ago
  My guess is top management may have been more worried about employees selling their laptops with trade secrets on them and then claiming they were stolen.
• jtbigwoo 13y ago
  It was a bad policy for all sorts of reasons, but there had been a really careless loss the previous year. Something like a hundred thousand customer credit files were left on an unencrypted laptop in the back of a reeturned rental car. Like I said, they rescinded it before anybody actually got fired. You can usually learn more about the history of a company by reading its employee handbook than by reading its "About Us" page.
  • jonknee 13y ago
    The new policy should have been if you have unencrypted credit files on your laptop (or desktop) you are fired. That's the inexcusable behavior, not the loss of a laptop.