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Re: Stolen Boeing laptop is recovered
From: "Roy M. Silvernail" <roy () rant-central com>
Date: Sat, 27 Jan 2007 12:37:25 -0500
Pascal Charest wrote:
I can't remember if Symantec Ghost access the drive as read-only, preserving the last access time, but doing a copy that does is quite trivial to do. Take the hard-drive out, connect it through a read-only interface and copy everything. Such interfaces are easy to find - any law enforcement departement will have a couple of them since they must use them to gather data from "evidence hard drive". Contacting their provider, or even building your own...
Or boot the box from your choice of Linux live CDs, plug in a large external USB drive and do 'dd if=/dev/hda of=/mnt/sda1/chump_dump.img bs=1M'. As you say, trivial.
I guess that the "third-party computer-security consultant" wrote something in the order of "the last-access time was not changed by the thief activities" in the report and it was interpreted as "not accessed".
I'd bet that *all* of the "data was not accessed" reports are due to this.
As a thief, this would be one of the easiest way to "gather data" without having it changed / repported by the corporation.
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