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Re: big brother at school
From: "Rob, grandpa of Ryan, Trevor, Devon & Hannah" <rMslade () shaw ca>
Date: Thu, 25 Feb 2010 13:47:30 -0800
Date sent: Thu, 25 Feb 2010 11:09:06 -0500 From: Rich Kulawiec <rsk () gsp org>
1. Surely any competent thief, on bagging one of these laptops, would begin by making sure the computer was disconnected from all networks (perhaps turning off the wireless via a hardware switch, if available) and then reloading the software, starting with the operating system.
Once did some work for a company that made laptop tracking software. One of the salescritters, a person who knew all about the software, what it did, and responsible for presenting all this information to potential purchasers, stole one of the company laptops. And got caught. Fortunately, most thieves are thieves because they are incompetent. ====================== (quote inserted randomly by Pegasus Mailer) rslade () vcn bc ca slade () victoria tc ca rslade () computercrime org To get the medium's magic to work for one's aims rather than against them is to attain literacy. - Alan Kay, `Computer Software', Scientific American, Sept. 1984 victoria.tc.ca/techrev/rms.htm blog.isc2.org/isc2_blog/slade/index.html http://blogs.securiteam.com/index.php/archives/author/p1/ http://twitter.com/NoticeBored http://twitter.com/rslade _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.
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- Re: big brother at school, (continued)
- Re: big brother at school Rich Kulawiec (Feb 20)
- Re: big brother at school Benjamin Brown (Feb 22)
- Re: big brother at school Benjamin Brown (Feb 22)
- Re: big brother at school Vaughn, Randal L. (Feb 22)
- Re: big brother at school Chris Boyd (Feb 22)
- Re: big brother at school Rich Kulawiec (Feb 23)
- Re: big brother at school chris (Feb 23)
- Re: big brother at school Rich Kulawiec (Feb 25)
- Re: big brother at school Valdis . Kletnieks (Feb 25)
- Re: big brother at school der Mouse (Feb 25)
- Re: big brother at school Rob, grandpa of Ryan, Trevor, Devon & Hannah (Feb 25)
- Re: big brother at school Buhrmaster, Gary (Feb 25)
- Re: big brother at school Dan Kaminsky (Feb 18)
- Re: big brother at school Joel Esler (Feb 18)
- Re: big brother at school Tomas L. Byrnes (Feb 18)
- Re: big brother at school Dave Paris (Feb 18)
- Re: big brother at school Benjamin Brown (Feb 18)
- Re: big brother at school Blue Boar (Feb 18)