Stolen laptops cost users $49,000
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Intel claims
Thursday, 23 April 2009, 13:35
A NICKED LAPTOP can cost a user on average $49,000 according to a survey by Intel.
Intel worked out this figure based on the value of the data contained on the average business PC and multiplying by its shoe size, apparently.
The company says its loss estimate includes replacement, detection, forensics, data breach, lost intellectual property, lost productivity, and legal, consulting and regulatory expenses.
Coincidentally, Intel has just started flogging its anti-theft hardware, which it says will solve the problem of loose data. We can't help but wonder if these two stories are related. µ
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Internal detection? So if I put for example linux on the laptop, it spontaneously decides to lock me out?
Remotely disable the laptop? A wonderful idea just waiting to be abused.
This is a bigger can of worms than TPM was and I doubt that Intel will be as stupid to shoot itself in the foot by enabling such features.
i'd like to see the formula that calculated this random number. i bet its more laughable than a government sleaze cover-up!
..well maybe not that absurd
Intel and co. are gradually adding all the nasty features to TPM that their critics claimed were on the roadmap, and that they said was just FUD. (Controlling what OS you can run, integration into the CPU, that sort of thing.) Quite clever, really - by the time the really bad stuff rolls out, it's all old news.
$49K per loss for 600K unit losses per year (according to one insurance company) means over $29 billion dollars in stolen notebooks every year. Somehow, I doubt it. Can you say "sensationalism"?
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