At 10:46 PM 12/13/99 -0800, Bill Stewart wrote:
>Yes and no. My laptop is much more likely to get stolen than my home PC
>(though less likely to get blackbagged.)
If a laptop is stolen, the loss should be financial, not information
leakage. But the issue here is subversion, not loss; as you say, it would
be quite the mission-impossible to steal, trojan, and replace your laptop
without you noticing. Whereas your office cleaning staff dust off your
work machine nightly. (Hmm, a minor security benefit of the nocturnal life.)
>So you may be walking down the street or sitting in Starbucks and
>some cop or some computer-viking or some industrial data reseller
>may "upgrade" your machine by radio or M.I.B. infrared blinkylight widget;
If you do over-the-air reconfigs of your implants, well, what
can I say. Go ahead and run ActiveX on your pacemaker :-) There are some
things for which security >> convenience.
