The thing to fear is not the theft of your laptop, but the theft of the data and trade secrets on it. Rest assured, this will become the number 1 issue, especially for international travel.

Most of you who work for large companies with trade secrets can probably figure out that your corporate security group will not allow you to become separated from your laptop if it contains proprietary data...so no checking those laptops.

I work for a software company that pioneered and remains the leader in the 'access anywhere' business, and I recently suggested they pick up the ball on this and start working with customers and potential customers to showcase how our products can still allow people to be productive on the road while carrying blank OS only laptops without data - then access your work PC or company email/data systems by connecting to the Internet. Our products can solution this problem to a 'T', so I hope they connect the dots and get customers prepared just in case a ban comes down the road at some point.