AT&T screwup

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squeakie @alter.net	AT&T screwup A little birdie told me that an HR employee at AT&T left a laptop in their car with all the private data of EVERY employee and contractor on it in their car. When the employee came back the laptop was gone... So apparently no one got fired, but after a lot of yelling, pointing fingers and threatening the employees, they were all made to take private information management classes and had their laptop hard drives encrypted. Of course not all encryption went smoothly and quite a few people had their systems disabled, all their data gone. The more fortunate only had to deal with the performance penalty of the file system encryption on their already ancient laptops full of company spyware. I guess a high employee morale is not a top priority there, might as well forget about getting a decent service from them either.
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iansltx join:2007-02-19 Golden, CO kudos:2 Reviews: ·Comcast	Darned company spyware... Give me a pocketbook and I'll give you as many Thinkpads as you need, with transparent encryption performance-wise (TrueCrypt baby!) and backup to a centralized server for what little employees have to put on their notebooks. Let's see, you could even do backup on the fly as files are made...heard of AT&T Mobility? Same company. So get reasonably modern laptops with HSPA built in, and TrueCrypt protecting the data, and you're all good. And thank goodness AT&T info was stolen itself, rather than customer info...this way AT&T encrypts their computers before another breach happens, and nobody I know gets their uniquely identifiable info stolen...
	to forum · permalink · 2008-07-18 21:24:07 ·

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