Here’s an interesting case out of the UK. Thanks go to Redemtech for the alert. The BBC reports that a Ministry of Defence laptop was stolen last November. But in an interesting twist, the encryption (decryption) key was stolen along with it.

All this in the context of the MoD confession back in July that 658 of its laptops have been stolen in the last four years.

658?

In this case, MyLaptopGPS’ Remote Decryption Kill would have been quite handy, which allows us to remotely kill the decryption system so that even a thief who has the decryption key cannot access the data.

Too late for the MoD, but food for thought moving forward.