Good points Steve and unfortunately far too common. A good Kensington Lock Kit costs around $20, interesting to see a raise of hands here, how many use those regularly?, and how many breach the simplest security practices by having data of any value on their portables?

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Note that if the laptop was turned on, a good hacker would not have much of a problem breaching security measures such as disk encryption, given that he could "operate" on it within the lifetime of the battery.