18 years ago I wrote some software for a small HVACR company that I was working for at the time. We were one of the first companies that put our technicians and salespeople onto laptops and cell phone connects in their service trucks. Little did I know that 14 years later the companies owner is still using that software. How did I find out? Company was sold, server was taken out of service, and his laptop has locked him out of the system.
I guess my security protocol worked 🙂 There was always a fear of someone stealing the laptop and using the customer lists to start their own businesses. So…. I set it up that if the laptop could not connect to the server it would lock out a whole bunch of the critical information until it reconnected to the server. Nice! It worked!!!
Oh, well, it will give their new IT guy something to do.