Personal or confidential data gets into the wrong hands
NIST-certified USB Flash drives with hardware encryption cracked (THE H SECURIY 04/01/2010)
Easy to crack (THE H SECURIY 18/03/2009)
Screwing up security (THE H SECURIY 09/09/2008)
MEMORY STICK WITH SECRET PERSONAL DATA FOUND IN A PUB CAR PARK (RBN 02/11/2008)
Stanford laptop with employee data stolen (SNS 06/06/2008)
Sweden misplaces military secrets: memory stick holding classified data on a
public computer
TSA loses hard drive with personal info
6
Million Personal Records Compromised Each Month; 2 Billion by
December?
FBI
Dealing With its Lost Laptop Problem
Stolen
Boeing laptop held ID data on 382,000
Boeing
worker data on stolen laptop
Data-breach
costs on the rise
Security
flap after US Navy loses laptops
200,000
HP staff exposed as laptop loss party continues
Lost
laptop exposes IBM staff
Computer
theft may expose data on 180,000 patients
Londoners
top world in leaving laptops in taxis
Los Alamos lab again missing computer disks with classified data
Fliers
lose laptops at airport checkpoints
CSI/FBI
Computer Crime and Security Survey
Senator
decries rising tide of lost laptops : IRS Laptops, Taxpayer Data Go
Missing
62,000
mobile phones and 2900 laptops lost in London's black cabs
This data would be better off, stored on a BSID, well
protected from prying eyes
...or laptops protected by the smart card in the BSID