[johngalt]

RE: Social Engineering -> these were software developers that gave up their laptops btw, not just random business users. So he must have had a good pitch.

The laptops were all less than a year old. But you could easily argue the loss value was less than their purchase value. However we still had to spend $30K to replace them all.

The data on the laptops also wasn't worthless. Thankfully the guy was just an ebay/thief and not interested in selling our sourcecode.

[dnsworks]

If he hadn't, well you would have learned the hard way to have a strong laptop encryption policy, wouldn't you have?