Comment Re:Why must it always be "the janitor"?? (Score 1) 239
Speaking as a programmer, the janitors I have been acquainted with have had, on average, higher integrity and a better work ethic than than the average programmer. Also, in my experience, programmers have typically been given greater access to company assets and exhibit a greater sense of entitlement.
(If you are a programmer and currently work with me, I'm not talking about you--I'm talking about the "dearly departed.")
To address the point of the article, I think location-based encryption is a clever idea, but it may need to work at the level of the hard drive. I have had the experience of walking into a server room to find a server torn apart and the hard drives missing. I haven't disassembled my laptop, but doubt it would be any harder to remove its hard drive.
(If you are a programmer and currently work with me, I'm not talking about you--I'm talking about the "dearly departed.")
To address the point of the article, I think location-based encryption is a clever idea, but it may need to work at the level of the hard drive. I have had the experience of walking into a server room to find a server torn apart and the hard drives missing. I haven't disassembled my laptop, but doubt it would be any harder to remove its hard drive.
