Well the nightmare that all of us geeks feared the most, happened this morning. I walked into my office and found that it had been broken into. The computers were all taken and the printers, copier and some accessories were also stolen. I had backups of the important files, but a lot of small things are missing, settings, ftp accounts, and the most important thing of all, my privacy.
It will be a couple days before the insurance settles the claim and we can replace the hardware and software, but my worry is that I had passwords and account information available for any trained hacker to find. Sure I had the passwords and I did not save key rings in browsers, but the fact is, it can be found out. I learned a hard lesson. I will be encrypting my hard drive from this time forward. My data will be secure, I will have a call home program installed in case the thieves fire up the system and try to get online.
I would like to here from the geeks out there as to what measures I need to take to make sure that my information is as safe as I can keep it. Let’s hear your feedback. I’ll be back with more news as soon as I get my computers back at the office.
Really sorry to hear about the break in Tim…hope all goes well in getting all back where it should be.
Make sure to aleart all of the pawn shops in the area. That really sucks though, maybe I should encrypt my data….