[Way OT] Workstation Security
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texte = Hi all,All apologies ahead of time for yet another OT post, but you folks are usually pretty helpful in general...I've decided to move my office out of the house and into a 'real' office and I feel that my/my clients stuff is reasonably secure enough from 'outside' intrusions to let me sleep at night (I have a firewall, I turn off the computer at night, box is not on a LAN, etc.). But now I have to consider that my box will be vulnerable from a physical intrusion that I wouldn't be able to prevent by being there like I can when I'm at home.I will obviously lock my office door when I'm gone, I've enabled password-protection in BIOS to not allow the OS to boot without authentication, I am considering screen-saver password-protection for those rare occasions when I leave the box on and unattended (I hate screensavers...), and I've locked and/or otherwise protected any files/disks that I have 'lying around', but how do I prevent someone from just booting up my machine from a floppy, etc. and getting into it that way (Win98), or worse yet, removing the drives and extracting the data however they want?Truth be told, I am always backed up, I have insurance and I don't really have any truly 'sensitive' data that could cause mass-detruction on a global scale or anything, etc, but it's really just the principle of it -- I don't have anything in my car that's valuable, but I still lock the doors, you know?I know nothing is truly 100% secure and that in the extreme case of someone flat-out stealing my computer, I'm, well, screwed, but I want to at least know that I've done everything I can to make it pretty hard for someone to intrude or at least irritating for them ;)Thanks in advance.-Dan ------------------------------------------------------------ http://www.StrongGraphicDesign.com (208) 319-0137 | Toll-free p/f 877-561-1656 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list
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Hi all,All apologies ahead of time for yet another OT post, but you folks are usually pretty helpful in general...I've decided to move my office out of the house and into a 'real' office and I feel that my/my clients stuff is reasonably secure enough from 'outside' intrusions to let me sleep at night (I have a firewall, I turn off the computer at night, box is not on a LAN, etc.). But now I have to consider that my box will be vulnerable from a physical intrusion that I wouldn't be able to prevent by being there like I can when I'm at home.I will obviously lock my office door when I'm gone, I've enabled password-protection in BIOS to not allow the OS to boot without authentication, I am considering screen-saver password-protection for those rare occasions when I leave the box on and unattended (I hate screensavers...), and I've locked and/or otherwise protected any files/disks that I have 'lying around', but how do I prevent someone from just booting up my machine from a floppy, etc. and getting into it that way (Win98), or worse yet, removing the drives and extracting the data however they want?Truth be told, I am always backed up, I have insurance and I don't really have any truly 'sensitive' data that could cause mass-detruction on a global scale or anything, etc, but it's really just the principle of it -- I don't have anything in my car that's valuable, but I still lock the doors, you know?I know nothing is truly 100% secure and that in the extreme case of someone flat-out stealing my computer, I'm, well, screwed, but I want to at least know that I've done everything I can to make it pretty hard for someone to intrude or at least irritating for them ;)Thanks in advance.-Dan ------------------------------------------------------------ http://www.StrongGraphicDesign.com (208) 319-0137 | Toll-free p/f 877-561-1656 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list . To unsubscribe, E-mail to: To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to Web Archive of this list is at: http://webdna.smithmicro.com/
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