Re: [Way OT] Workstation Security
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numero = 46090
interpreted = N
texte = Dan, I think you've been watching too manyJames Bond movies. :-)Seriously, I would think that most ppl willing to break in to a place will notbe smart enough to extract info from a HD. If you must protect against it, I wouldsuggest a user based machine like NT, *nix, or OSX. (OSX has a lockable case andcan be chained to a desk). This probably doesn't help you much I know.However, it sounds like you are taking pertinant measures by the things you mentioned.You could always put a trip wire infront of the door or window that triggers a sleep agentgas to be eminated through the room. This would be cool cause you could interigatethe guy later when he woke up.DonovanDan Strong wrote:> 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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Dan, I think you've been watching too manyJames Bond movies. :-)Seriously, I would think that most ppl willing to break in to a place will notbe smart enough to extract info from a HD. If you must protect against it, I wouldsuggest a user based machine like NT, *nix, or OSX. (OSX has a lockable case andcan be chained to a desk). This probably doesn't help you much I know.However, it sounds like you are taking pertinant measures by the things you mentioned.You could always put a trip wire infront of the door or window that triggers a sleep agentgas to be eminated through the room. This would be cool cause you could interigatethe guy later when he woke up.DonovanDan Strong wrote:> 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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