What to do BEFORE your laptop leaves home without you.

Posted by Bryan

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How much time do you spend thinking about your laptop getting lost or stolen? Or preparing for the possibility? Probably little to none. But thousands go missing each year from airports alone, never mind hotel rooms, cafes, and schools. They can even vanish from your own home. Trust me, I know.

I recently had the unfortunate experience of having my apartment broken into. The tech gadget-grabbers nabbed my Skooba Netbook Messenger bag, and that would have been bad enough, even with my generous employee discount. But  they also took the netbook inside it, and pretty much all my other electronics and valuables. They almost grabbed my primary, full sized laptop, but luckily dropped it in the hall before taking off. Once the initial shock and anger wore off, my next thought was, what info did they get? What if they hadn’t dropped my main laptop and got even more of my personal and professional data?