If your computer is stolen in transit, go and buy another one off the shelf: you're already set up with the OS. Safe storage: If you are paranoid or traveling on certain airlines, you can remove the "disk" and store it in your wallet or on your person.It can also act as an SSH server so that more than one person can use it at once. A full development environment with the ability to work offline or online.If need be, you can create a new one from a borrowed card from a phone. The entire OS and data are held on a "disk" that is as small as a fingernail, is cheap, and is easily bought in a wide variety of retail outlets.It's cheap enough at $8 to buy another if yours gets lost/stolen/damaged.It's small enough to fit in hand baggage or your pocket.So, here's what you can get with a Pi Zero portable computer: Or there's the " evil maid" scenario, in which someone interferes with your device without your knowledge.
Laptops can be easy targets, they can get left on trains, or you could be mugged. Then there's the loss/theft/damage problem. The problem is multi-faceted though: What if your role is such that you need to be able to fix software/systems on-the-go and you don't always have access to a "spare" laptop? On the occasions when I travel (by train), I have to lug my laptop with me, and it's a pain over the course of a day.
After all, everything is in the cloud now, right? Or, you could carry your important, commercially sensitive data on a CD/DVD or memory stick, but only if it's encrypted to a standard and your employer's data handling policy allows that. So how do we get around that one? The sensible option would be to not travel with a laptop and use a hot-desk style spare at the destination. Last year, my employer issued a decree that in order to conform to its security policy, we would no longer be able to check laptops in as luggage, and not long after, the US government decided to summarily ban carrying laptops in hand baggage to and from certain countries, y'know, for security.
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