Password Protecting a USB External Drive is Just Common Sense
Password protecting a USB data drive should automatically be done with each and every one of these that you may have or use.
Why is this so? Have you even lost or misplaced one? Maybe you absent-mindedly left one on the table at a local internet cafe while you went to the checkout counter to pick up your coffee refill and came back to find it was gone? Sometimes we just plain lose these things, and whoever finds them, if anyone does, now has a brand new USB external drive.
So, have you ever thought of what might happen to all of the data you put on those things once there lost and gone away? Well, almost anything could happen.
Heck, even absolutely nothing could happen - they might be lost forever from everyone, or if someone finds it and keeps it, they may just simply erase everything on it and just use it for themselves.
Of course, if you have some very delicate natured data on them, you might fall victim to identity theft.
Still another thing that might happen is that your data is sold away and later on you find out that your postal mail and e-mail addresses are simply flooded with junk mail from a myriad of places trying to sell you crap.
This is why password protecting a USB data drive is just plain old common sense.
Now, think about this...
what if you use these little mini data sticks in business, and you use them to transport your clients' private and financial information from computer to computer - what happens if those get lost or stolen? Can you just imagine the repercussions of this horrible situation? Perish the thought! From now on, think seriously about password protecting a USB external drive every time you use one!
Why is this so? Have you even lost or misplaced one? Maybe you absent-mindedly left one on the table at a local internet cafe while you went to the checkout counter to pick up your coffee refill and came back to find it was gone? Sometimes we just plain lose these things, and whoever finds them, if anyone does, now has a brand new USB external drive.
So, have you ever thought of what might happen to all of the data you put on those things once there lost and gone away? Well, almost anything could happen.
Heck, even absolutely nothing could happen - they might be lost forever from everyone, or if someone finds it and keeps it, they may just simply erase everything on it and just use it for themselves.
Of course, if you have some very delicate natured data on them, you might fall victim to identity theft.
Still another thing that might happen is that your data is sold away and later on you find out that your postal mail and e-mail addresses are simply flooded with junk mail from a myriad of places trying to sell you crap.
This is why password protecting a USB data drive is just plain old common sense.
Now, think about this...
what if you use these little mini data sticks in business, and you use them to transport your clients' private and financial information from computer to computer - what happens if those get lost or stolen? Can you just imagine the repercussions of this horrible situation? Perish the thought! From now on, think seriously about password protecting a USB external drive every time you use one!
