Windows Server 2003 Security: A Technical Reference

Chapter 6. EFS Basics

September 16, 2001—the Hyatt Regency Hotel, Irvine, California. Qualcomm founder and self-made billionaire Irwin Jacobs turned from speaking with journalists and realized his laptop was missing. Just minutes before, he'd been using it to give a presentation to the Society of American Business Editors. On the laptop were company financial statements, secret data, email, and, of course, his contact list and pictures of his grandchildren. It was the first widely publicized laptop theft, and it was the first one to bring to everyone's attention the fact that laptop theft might not just be about pawning a piece of expensive hardware. There has been much speculation that the theft was not routine but instead was a case of corporate ...