let see I will steal a laptop to get information to sell, gee which of the millions of laptops should I steal. how about I go right to one of the servers and get all the information and noone willknow for 6 months. If I steal a laptop I sell it on E-Bay and make money. Oh yeah how about that wireless comment. Lets see I use whole disk encryption that unencrypts when I log in and my wireless turns on. What extra security are we getting here. For $10 per laptop and the 6-8 hours of windows update, checkdisk, removing any hidden rescue partions then finally encrypting just what have we accomplished besides spending money? I am not against the idea of HD encryption but for the majority of Gov orgs, the cost is rather high for political CYA.

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