Re: mac trojan in-the-wild

[Paul Schmehl <pauls () utdallas edu>]

--On Monday, November 05, 2007 14:54:52 -0400 Dude VanWinkle 
<dudevanwinkle () gmail com> wrote:

> On 11/2/07, reepex <reepex () gmail com> wrote:
> > I guess you never heard of full disk encryption, finger print readers, or
> > caged machines.
>
> Well, caged machines fall outside of the "dont have physical security"
> issue.
>
> Finger Print readers dont have anything to do with Physical Security,
> unless they are tied to encryption software
>
> as for the full disk encryption: You got me there. That will protect you
And, of course, the number of people who actually *have* full disk 
encryption and are *using* it is somewhere just north of 1 or 2% right now.

A good encasement of concrete will work fairly well, especially if it's 
strong enough to withstand a nuclear blast.

But then, we *were* talking about the unsophistcated average Mac user, 
whose understanding of this trivia would be close to nil.

-- 
Paul Schmehl (pauls () utdallas edu)
Senior Information Security Analyst
The University of Texas at Dallas
http://www.utdallas.edu/ir/security/

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