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Re: Ameriprise Loses Data on 230, 000 Customers and Advisers
From: Drsolly <drsollyp () drsolly com>
Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2006 11:15:02 +0000 (GMT)
On Sun, 29 Jan 2006, der Mouse wrote:
On the other hand, laptops often go walkies, and if 10% of your desktops have unauthorized downloads of corporate data on them, it's likely the laptop percentage is closer to 20% (after all, many laptop users will do the extracts so they can work on the plane...)There's a reason my laptop encrypts everything but the kernel and bootblocks. It won't even get as far as mounting / without the key, and that key is stored nowhere but my memory. And my live-backup of the disk backs up the ciphertext view.
I dno't even have that much. My laptop is used as a terminal over an ssl tunnel to my database.
Letter agencies and big corporations could probably break the crypto, if they thought the data worth the resources.
Not on mine - there's no crypto to break.
I have lots of lower-cost holes open to someone with that kind of resources, though, and I don't think very many casual - or even reasonably-good-cracker - laptop thieves will get very far.
I'd guess that all any thief wants is to sell the laptop down the pub for a few notes. He'd also get my USB floppy drive and my bluetooth dongle, and I'd have the annoyance of having to find another laptop with a 1600 by 1200 screen (most specs dn't tell you the screen resolution, and I seem to be the only person it's important to, maybe I'm the only person who uses a laptop purely as a multiple terminal?) _______________________________________________ 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: Ameriprise Loses Data on 230,000 Customers and Advisers Gadi Evron (Jan 26)
- Re: Ameriprise Loses Data on 230,000 Customers and Advisers Mary Landesman (Jan 26)
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- Re: Ameriprise Loses Data on 230, 000 Customers and Advisers Valdis . Kletnieks (Jan 27)
- Re: Ameriprise Loses Data on 230, 000 Customers and Advisers der Mouse (Jan 29)
- Re: Ameriprise Loses Data on 230, 000 Customers and Advisers Drsolly (Jan 30)
- Re: Ameriprise Loses Data on 230, 000 Customers and Advisers der Mouse (Jan 30)
- Re: Ameriprise Loses Data on 230, 000 Customers and Advisers Valdis . Kletnieks (Jan 27)
- Re: Ameriprise Loses Data on 230,000 Customers and Advisers Mary Landesman (Jan 26)