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Re: [Full-disclosure] mac trojan in-the-wild
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- Subject: Re: [Full-disclosure] mac trojan in-the-wild
- From: Paul Schmehl <pauls@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 05 Nov 2007 13:18:22 -0600
--On Monday, November 05, 2007 14:54:52 -0400 Dude VanWinkle
<dudevanwinkle@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 11/2/07, reepex <reepex@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> I guess you never heard of full disk encryption, finger print readers, or
>> caged machines.
>
> Well, caged machines fall outside of the "dont have physical security"
> issue.
>
> Finger Print readers dont have anything to do with Physical Security,
> unless they are tied to encryption software
>
> as for the full disk encryption: You got me there. That will protect you
>
And, of course, the number of people who actually *have* full disk
encryption and are *using* it is somewhere just north of 1 or 2% right now.
A good encasement of concrete will work fairly well, especially if it's
strong enough to withstand a nuclear blast.
But then, we *were* talking about the unsophistcated average Mac user,
whose understanding of this trivia would be close to nil.
--
Paul Schmehl (pauls@xxxxxxxxxxxx)
Senior Information Security Analyst
The University of Texas at Dallas
http://www.utdallas.edu/ir/security/
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