i guess they never saw "The Recruit"
Otherwise they'd know that flash drives are a wicked security risk:
Of course people will check out what's on a memory stick, they're hoping it's amateur porn.
The one good thing about most corporate data is that the average person doesn't care much about spreadsheets and access databases. I'd be more likely to wipe off the stick and use it for myself.
I'd probably hang on to the amateur porn, though.
Tut, tut, says SanDisk. Because end-user respondents also said that data they were most likely to copy onto a memory stick includes customer records (25 per cent), financial information (17 per cent), business plans (15 per cent), employee records (13 per cent), marketing plans (13 per cent), intellectual property (six per cent) and source code (six per cent).
(We'll suppose the remaining 11 per cent consists of goatse and humorous photos of cats, which to be fair can be equally nefarious when in the wrong hands.)
This security lapse might be okay if the survey didn't indicate approximately one in ten end-users reported finding a flash drive in a public place. When asked to pick the three most likely actions they would take if they found a memory stick in public, 55 per cent said they would view the data.
Of course people will check out what's on a memory stick, they're hoping it's amateur porn.
The one good thing about most corporate data is that the average person doesn't care much about spreadsheets and access databases. I'd be more likely to wipe off the stick and use it for myself.
I'd probably hang on to the amateur porn, though.
Since you're using ubuntu, it's fairly easy to encrypt those flash drives. Google "ubuntu dm-crypt" . It goes something like
1) apt-get install dm-crypt
2) luksformat /dev/mapper/drivename
3) unplug drive and plug back in, GUI pops up password.
So your amateur porn collection is safe.
I'm going to have to write more about encryption. So many individuals and companies alike rule out encryption because they think it's too hard.