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Subject: [IP] Re: A Method for Critical Data Theft - New York Times



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From: "Lee Dryburgh" <dryburghl@gmail.com>
Date: February 22, 2008 8:59:59 AM EST
Subject: Re: [IP] A Method for Critical Data Theft - New York Times

This has been all over the news today. It seems another unwarranted headline grabber (sorry to IP person whose work it is).

The first point of security of data is physical security and from the quick read you need to push somebody away from their laptop, quickly spray the machine with something to cool it down very quick, hope the person did not disable booting from external drives (which you should do if running disk. encr.), and quickly boot from an external drive. If you can do to all that effort - I'd recommend installing a key logger - simpler with better results ;)

Interesting and worthwhile research though.

Regards

Lee

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