Re: [Full-disclosure] New Laptop Polices

[Bob Radvanovsky <rsradvan@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I was always under the impression that BIOS security features could always be 
circumvented.  See further comments below...

-r

----- Original Message -----
From: J. Oquendo [mailto:sil@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
To: Bob Radvanovsky [mailto:rsradvan@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Cc: "Cullen, Michael" [mailto:michael.cullen@xxxxxxxxxx], 
full-disclosure@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [Full-disclosure] New Laptop Polices


> Bob Radvanovsky wrote:
> > You mean the fact that you are *erquired* now to *check* your laptop along
> with your baggage?  Take into account that most laptops aren't easy to
> remove the hard disk drives, and that most laptops of corporate and/or
> government executives contain either sensitive or classified information, I
> don't seriously think that the UK government, nor its corporations, have
> taken into consideration all of the consequences involved.  Take for example
> the ongoing issues of laptops mysteriously disappearing (esp. the Veteran's
> Administration...I lost count, how many has it been, 5 times?) that contains
> spreadsheets and/or databases that contains *private* information.
> >   
> 
> You're confusing two things here. What one corporation and their 
> policies concerning securing information have to do with his initial 
> question is obsolete. I'm under the impression of his message he didn't 
> mean the safety of his data. But in case he did then he needs a lot of 
> reading to do going back in time to days of the rainbow series books.

You may be right, but I was confused as to what his objectives were here, of 
which, one of the more important aspects should be "data security", so this 
raises a *whole* can 'o worms.

> > The UK needs to consider the implications about *how* they will cover the
> loss of financial, sensitive or classified information...
> >
> >   
> I don't believe (again) this was his initial question, whether or not 
> the officials in the airline industry give a rats rear of whether or not 
> corporate/private data is secure.

True, a moot point.

> > Just my 2 cents worth, which by today's standards doesn't even get you a
> piece of gum any more...sad, isn't it?
> >
> > -r
> >
> > P.S.  I think that corporations now need to state that corporate
> executives should NOT have corporate data on their hard disk drives; further
> locking down corporate assets.  I think that they should make it easier for
> the removal of hard disk drives to be removed so they aren't stolen.
> >
> >   
> And you hope to accomplish this how? I can agree that data needs to be 
> minimized but there are plenty of options available to completely lock 
> down any laptop from the BIOS on up so I fail to see what you were truly 
> hoping to state.

Actually, wasn't there a mention about a self-destructing DVD just recently?  
This would be worthwhile to investigate into, or the other idea about imaging 
the laptop in case it's stolen or damaged during transport.

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