I was on the train the other day when I saw the guy beside me get up and walk off to the toilet. He left his laptop unlocked. It would take, what, a second to hit Alt/Ctrl & Del to lock the screen but he didn’t bother. With so many stories in the news about [...]

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Yesterday, the Daily Mail carried this story about a hapless – and innocent – chap who was arrested by gunpoint after a member of the public mistook the MP3 player in his pocket for a gun. The story unfolds like an episode of 24, with this poor chap being followed on CCTV cameras, which seem [...]

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A worker from Boeing has been fired, after their laptop was stolen. The laptop was holding data for nearly 400,000 retired Boeing workers, and included home address, home telephone number, social security and salary details (I’m guessing that person had something to do with the Boeing pension scheme….). My first reaction to this story was, [...]

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