Is your PC encrypted?
Today I was considering how stressful it would be to lose the notebook or have it stolen. The info is backed up, and computers can be purchased, but I would worry about some of the information being i...
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Campfire Time wrote:GordonThree wrote:
some kid grabs your laptop, hops on a motor cycle and plugs in a charger, they get to a work space, hose the ram sticks down with freon, remove them from the laptop and put 'em into a gizmo that dumps the contents to a usb drive. Search the contents for the big keys (they stand out), and poof encryption is gone.
Methinks you've watched to many episodes of CSI Cyber. Sure, this "could" be done. But seriously? Steal a laptop from a random person and go through all that just find out all it has is baby photos and bank info for for an account with $500 in it?
Yes, these kind of things can happen. But they are targeted attacks and are hitting victims they know have valuable data on their machines. Criminals are lazy. There are far easier, and less glamorous ways to obtain that data without providing fodder for exaggerated TV shows. It's exactly why phishing emails haven't gone away.
Who said anything about a random person. For all I know the OP is a retired partner from a VC firm or General Electric engineer for that matter. As fictional as my example sounds like something from your CSI shows, the technology is quite simple and easy to put together given the right connections and motivation.
