On a recent business trip to Paris, the window of our hired car was smashed, and a bag containing most of our "virtual history", not to mention the many and varied valuables that we tote from place to place when travelling: wallets, cash, cheque books, passports, access codes, account documents, company details...was stolen. The list of losses is long, and particularly worrying, when you consider the damage that can be done if this kind of information gets into the hands of computer savvy criminals. The theft of documents causes anger and frustration, plans to be changed, and time, money and effect wasted to replace them...but it's so much more than that...
