Re: Hidden Copying Software

[jim () openanswers co uk]

Hi,
You should ask the prof to apply occam's razor to this situation. Did he 
leave the key unattended? Maybe he needed to pee and left it in a 
workstation; it would only take a few seconds to copy the contents.

Also consider that the leak may have come from somewhere else. What 
evidence do you have that the file was stolen from the key? Where else is 
it stored? Are there any hard copies floating around. Don't get blinded by 
the possible but unlikely event that someone trojaned a machine in the 
off chance that the USB key held the information they wanted. The simplest 
answer may be the right one, and usually is.

Regards,
Jim Halfpenny

On Mon, 24 Jul 2006, Rocky wrote:

> Hi list,
>
> A friend of mine who is a medical professor asked me if
> it is possible to copy his usb thumb drive from their
> class room pc without knowing it? he told me maybe
> there's a hidden software that copying it in the background?
>
> His exam from his usb thumbdrive was exposed all over
> to his student.I told him that you need a very high tech
> software or expensive to do it? Is any such software capable
> of this? this some kind of impossible task in my views.
>
> Thanks.
>
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