So, just how secure is your laptop when you are on the go? If you are anything like me, chances are you just don’t take the contents of your laptop PC as seriously as you perhaps should. One option is to look at securing it at its source. With some of the great products from Laptopical, you rest easy knowing you are may still get that computer stolen, but at least its contents are safe!

Hundreds of thousands of laptop computers are stolen every year, yet only a tiny percentage of those laptops are ever recovered. Most notebooks are swiped when they are left unattended in offices, hotel conference rooms, taxi cabs, and public places such as airports and restaurants.

When your laptop is sold on the street, valuable data is lost with it. Sometimes the data, not the computer, is the real target. A devious thief with access to personal details stored on your laptop’s hard drive such as, name, address, date of birth, bank details, and social security number, could wreak havoc with your personal finances and credit rating.

There have been many high profile victims of laptop theft. Recently a laptop computer was stolen from California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger’s press secretary, Margita Thompson. Access to confidential political data may have been the prominent motive behind the theft of this notebook.

Protecting your laptop computer
Recently IBM has created a fingerprint reader for select Thinkpad T42 models, that could well be the future of laptop security. The fingerprint reader creates a biometric layer of security almost impossible to breach, but what about the rest of us with older notebooks?