[IP] Re: Clear Privacy Update

[David Farber <dave@farber.net>]

Begin forwarded message:

From: Brian Daniels <bitmage@pobox.com>
Date: August 8, 2008 12:54:48 PM EDT
To: David Farber <dave@farber.net>
Subject: Re: [IP] Clear Privacy Update
Reply-To: bitmage@pobox.com

On Thu, Aug 07, 2008 at 09:43:42AM -0700, David Farber wrote:
> ________________________________________
> situation.   Before we could send out that notice, the laptop was  
> recovered.
> And, we have determined from a preliminary  investigation that no  
> one logged
> into the computer from the time it went  missing in the  office  
> until the
> time it was found. Therefore, no unauthorized person has obtained any
> personal information.  Again, none of  your personal information was  
> on the


No one logged in != no one copied the hard drive.  You can easily boot  
the
laptop from a Linux CD and copy data off, leaving no traces in the logs.
Nevermind the foolishness of trusting any logging on a system that an  
attacker
has had physical access to.

--Brian

--
Be it thy course to busy giddy minds
With foreign quarrels; that action, hence borne out,
May waste the memory of the former days.
			Henry IV, Part 2
	

Brian Daniels                  bitmage@pobox.com
     http://www.eviloverlord.net





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