Data Security gets physical
Some poor guy happened to be the one in a Chicago-based co-location facility when at least two people sawed through a wall, came in and tazered and beat him, and proceeded to make off with several clients’ servers. The owners of the stolen servers would fall into two classes: those who encrypted important data on their disks, and those who didn’t. Those in the first category could go to sleep and call the insurance company in the morning, while those in the second category had the joy of staying up late to write the first draft of how they’re going to start encrypting in the future.
Sadly, this was the fourth time in 2 years that this particular co-lo had been broken into and equipment stolen!
Here’s a good open-source utility for encrypting data on disk: www.truecrypt.org.
