[thelist] [OT] Stolen laptop + Rails tip

[patrick]

Liam Delahunty wrote:
> On 2/16/06, Ian Anderson wrote:
>> My Dell laptop was stolen last night from my house, while we were
>> upstairs getting the kids off to bed. The laptop has Windows 2000
>> Professional, and the thing requires a password to login to Windows when
>> it starts up. The hard disk is not encrypted.
>>
> 
> This has been effectively answered so may I just offer the following
> advice from now on for storing passwords - use Password safe (windows)
> http://www.schneier.com/passsafe.html
> http://passwordsafe.sourceforge.net/
> 
> When ever I have a new password I enter it there, and store a backup
> of the (already encrypted) file offsite.
> 

I heartily concur with this as well. Very easy to use and can save you 
tons of lost time.

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