Thursday, January 11, 2001

Theft of vehicle leads to robbery at home A laptop computer with sensitive files on high-level drug investigations was stolen from an RCMP officer's house on New Year's Eve. Apparently, the officer's van was first stolen while he was attending a hockey game. The thieves discovered his address from the vehicle registration and drove to his home where they made off with thousands of dollars in personal property and the computer. [Source: *Winnipeg Free Press*, 11 Jan 2001] The risks in keeping such sensitive information at home, presumably not protected with any sort of encryption, are obvious. But I never realized that home address information on registration papers was a risk until now. D. Joseph Creighton [ESTP] | Programmer Analyst, Database Technologies, IST Joe_Creighton@UManitoba.CA | University of Manitoba Winnipeg, MB, Canada, ["D. Joseph Creighton" via risks-digest Volume 21, Issue 22] 0:00 # G!