Of laptop data security
Perhaps the first thing to say is: “It's nobody's fault.” We could blame the laws of physics for the current capabilities of laptops, but not those who discovered them, nor those who have successfully pushed the data storage of hard disks to terabyte capacities. Nor indeed, the people who squeezed the processing equivalent of several mainframes into the flat rectangle of electronic wizardry that we give to our mobile workers.
The downside, of course, of being able to carry the equivalent of several million copies of Encyclopedia Britannica in a briefcase, is that we can now lose, corrupt or inadvertently reveal vast quantities of information, whereas before we could only do so for relatively small quantities. It is like living in a palace after living in a shed - but of course, the shed had one door and a single room to maintain.
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