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oconnore on July 8, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: Woman gets laptop back in DIY sting operation

Re 2: Why not? If your disk is encrypted, anyone stealing it might as well not have any files at all.

geebee on July 8, 2011 [–]

Fair enough. If you're vigilant about it, this is safe.

I guess my only worry would be that the laptop is swiped while open, but i'd admit this is an unlikely scenario.

As a development practice, it's good to be able to build up a dummy db, but yeah, security isn't the big win here.

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