full-disclosure - Re: New Laptop Polices

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Date: Fri, 11 Aug 2006 13:54:30 -0400
From: Michael Holstein <michael.holstein@...ohio.edu>
To: full-disclosure@...ts.grok.org.uk
Subject: Re: New Laptop Polices

Well, how about this :

build a PXE type CD/DVD with all your business applications (you could
automate a nightly build to keep antivirus, patches, etc current). Do
"folder redirection" or similar to mount all user-specific bits from a
USB thumb drive (itself an encrypted volume).

Then your "traveling salesman" needs only the DVD and thumbdrive --
neither of which contain batteries.

You could go one better and write a wrapper around the bootloader so
that the contents of the CD/DVD (the O/S part, where you might have a
corporate VPN client or something) are encrypted as well [in linux this
would be easy .. in Windows I'm not so sure?]

Personally, I'm worried about what happens when some wacky terrorist
gets caught with a stick of Semtex in his keister...

/mike.

Peter Dawson wrote:
> We have done some storming on this issue. The issue is basically forked
> in terms of
> 1) Airline security
> 2) Data Security

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