Laptop was just stolen at the airport

mcast123

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EDIT: Good news, got it back, some old woman put it in her car???...and now for the amusing part....I looked at the recently opened documents, my ex-gf video was opened the day after I lost it. No wonder the old woman was smiling when I arrived at her door to pick it up, pervy OAPs :p

47 password changes later...curse firefox and "remember password". I used to work as an IT admin and left the damn thing with no password on the default admin account, damn my laziness.

Worst part is, there was a 2gb .mpg movie of my ex-gf doing naughty things on camera :p

note to self: if you travel with a laptop, secure the damn thing in case it gets nicked.
 
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47 password changes later...curse firefox and "remember password". I used to work as an IT admin and left the damn thing with no password on the default admin account, damn my laziness.

Worst part is, there was a 2gb .mpg movie of my ex-gf doing naughty things on camera :p

note to self: if you travel with a laptop, secure the damn thing in case it gets nicked.
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User error once again as ALWAYS. Hope you insured it. Let this teach you and everyone on the forums a lesson.

The moral of the story don't forget to put passwords on your laptop and always remember never to save passwords. lol
 
Dam mate. I always take precautions to protect my data as most of it is work stuff.

Definitely a reminder to just how important data becomes when they are lost/taken.
 
My laptop's just got the one user account and it's passworded. But just like rz30, I've had to remove passwords etc at work and know how easy it is - so anything I particularly care about is encrypted.

If I had a SSD I'd consider full disk encryption.... we do it at work with regular 5400RPM laptop HDD's but the performance hit is too annoying for me on my personal laptop.
 
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