full-disclosure - Re: round and round they go

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Message-ID: <47BF65F0.5060601@datenritter.de>
Date: Sat, 23 Feb 2008 01:16:48 +0100
From: niclas <lists@...enritter.de>
To: full-disclosure@...ts.grok.org.uk
Subject: Re: round and round they go

> I would think a more realistic scenario might be a person working at
> an airport shutting their system down then getting it stolen vs a
> forensic examiner yanking the cord on purpose. Just an observation.

if somebody steals your notebook at the air port the chance of this
person just beeing an ordinary criminal not interested in your data is
very high.

and if you just shut down your notebook, the DRAMs are still warm,
decreasing the time window for an "ice-spray-attack". so, unless the
notebook is thrown into a barrel of liquid nitrogen...

n.

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