iPass layers on security for laptops

Roaming internet access specialist iPass is getting into device security via a deal with Symantec. It is integrating Symantec's Sygate Enterprise Protection software into its client package - this includes USB lock-down, device health-checks, policy enforcement, application authorisation, and other features. IT managers will …

[Steve]

iPiss off with all this iCapitalisation

It's getting right on my charlies. I mean, I know IT is very much a 'me to' industry, but honestly, this is gettng beyond a joke !

Bad IT industry, bad !

[Anonymous Coward]

@Steve

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[Dillon Pyron]

iGnorance

iAgree.

I wonder how hard this stuff would be to crack, once you've pulled the drive from the laptop. At $90, why not just stuff a new drive in the thing and install a hot copy of the software? The disks are not the price issue.

If you're worried about proprietary data getting stolen, DON'T LET PEOPLE PUT IT ON THEIR LAPTOPS!!!!! How many data breaches is it going to take?

[Chris]

iCrap

Perhaps we should just call it 'iT'

[b shubin]

Syntactically faulty

would have to be iTechnology, but the naming convention would still be iNsipid and iDiotic (because it was iTerated until it became iRritating and iRrelevant).

iGained this iNsight when iBecame iNcredibly iRate after iRead this article.

[Paul van der Lingen]

almost related

So my neighbour had his laptop nicked (a MacBookPro). Much wailing and gnashing of teeth later, he gets a call from the local apple store.

Seems the fine member of society who bought it had ambled in to their store, told them he'd just bought it 2nd hand and could they please reinstall the OS to get rid of the previous owners junk.

The store checked the records, phoned the real owner and bingo, one happy story later.

[Anonymous Coward]

I(i)t's not new

iPass was founded in 1996, so you can't really accuse it of iBandwagon-jumping iToday!

[Steve]

RE: I(i)t's not new

iStand corrected :-)