There have been lots of threads here about stolen "gear", but I recently ran across a stolen laptop thread in a Finance Forum (Morningstar). It made me realize that I had made my laptop entirely too friendly with staying signed-in, or auto log-in, or saved cookies, and even a list of log-in names/passwords on my disk. Yah, dumb.
I saved all my personal info (including the list of login info!) to an encrypted website (and removed my auto-log-in from that site). I tested it, and it worked. I then deleted my personal info from my laptop. I should be able to access a wifi or a smartphone broadband when I need to see it.
I also removed all the "do not delete" options from my Ccleaner software, so that each time I'm done it really does clean everything. Maybe a computer whiz could access something, but I feel MUCH safer now.
It takes a bit of time to log-in each time in the morning (I had forgot one password and had to get a new one), but now I know someone can't just pick up my laptop and access everything. They can see what sites I use from my bookmarks, but they can't get to those sites without the log-in and password. Took me 1 1/2 hours to "fix" this.
