Story on how a portable hard drive with information on 100,000 people was gone missing at the TSA.
http://apnews.myway.com/article/20070505/D8OTUCJ80.html
How do these things keep happening? And why isn’t the first thing we here something like “Don’t worry. We keep that sort of data encrypted and the chances of an outsider are slim.” Why don’t we hear that? Rather the companies offer to pay for one of year of credit watch or credit protection.
If you have sensitive data on your hard drive do the right thing and keep it encrypted except for when you are actually using the data. It is the right thing to do.
