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Re: [privacy] privacy Digest, Vol 10, Issue 22
From: Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu
Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2007 09:29:59 -0500
On Wed, 24 Jan 2007 06:11:34 CST, Randall M said:
Has this always gone on and we never heard of it? Or is it really becoming so prevalent now?
It's been going on for a while - corporations and government agencies have *always* been losing laptops since laptops were invented. The only thing that has changed is that it gets admitted to more often now. Before, if a laptop with sensitive data got swiped by a crackhead who fenced it to supply their drug habit, it was just ignored because the chances of the data actually getting found/used was low. Now that the fences are getting smarter and potentially shopping any found data around, the threat model is different.... (Of course, I'm handwaving - does anybody have hard data showing that the fences *are* getting smarter, or that the crackheads are actually targeting laptops with potentially interesting data (which requires identifying a particular person with a laptop)?
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