full-disclosure - RE: New Laptop Polices

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Message-ID: <D57F923F19B89743A8CA3EED3B37713A01D88066@ISOEMAILP3.iso.com>
Date: Fri, 11 Aug 2006 12:52:45 -0400
From: "North, Quinn" <QNorth@....com>
To: "J. Oquendo" <sil@...iltrated.net>,
	"Bob Radvanovsky" <rsradvan@...xworks.net>
Cc: full-disclosure@...ts.grok.org.uk
Subject: RE: New Laptop Polices

Why not just encrypt the laptop drives ??
There's plenty of options out there ...

http://www.pointsec.com/

http://utimaco.com/

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-----Original Message-----
From: full-disclosure-bounces@...ts.grok.org.uk
[mailto:full-disclosure-bounces@...ts.grok.org.uk] On Behalf Of J.
Oquendo
Sent: Friday, August 11, 2006 12:37 PM
To: Bob Radvanovsky
Cc: full-disclosure@...ts.grok.org.uk
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question is obsolete.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.
> 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.
> 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.

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