Bruce Schneier, in his latest newsletter was talking about how to protect data on a laptop. He suggest whole disk encryption combined with encrypted archives for sets of older documents. He then added this gem.

“The best defense against data loss is to not have the data in the first place.” — Bruce Schneier

This is both brilliant and obvious. I am a digital pack-rat and am professionally employed to think about creating more copies of data, so it goes against my natural tendencies, but it probably wouldn’t hurt me to start chucking more data. That would make an excellent holiday project!

Speaking of security, the same newsletter pointed to a link indicating Britian never installed PALs on their nukes until quite recently. The had bike locks on their nukes. Given how easy it is to pick a bike lock, I can’t believe the world is still here.

“As useless as a chocolate teapot.” — seen on slashdot today.