Re: [Way OT] Workstation Security

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2002


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texte = Dan, I think you've been watching too many James Bond movies. :-)Seriously, I would think that most ppl willing to break in to a place will not be smart enough to extract info from a HD. If you must protect against it, I would suggest a user based machine like NT, *nix, or OSX. (OSX has a lockable case and can 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 agent gas to be eminated through the room. This would be cool cause you could interigate the guy later when he woke up.Donovan Dan 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/ Associated Messages, from the most recent to the oldest:

    
  1. Re: [Way OT] Workstation Security (Larry Goodhew 2002)
  2. Re: [Way OT] Workstation Security (Dale-Lists 2002)
  3. Re: [Way OT] Workstation Security (Dan Strong 2002)
  4. Re: [Way OT] Workstation Security (Gary Krockover 2002)
  5. Re: [Way OT] Workstation Security (Dan Strong 2002)
  6. Re: [Way OT] Workstation Security (Stuart Tremain 2002)
  7. Re: [Way OT] Workstation Security (Dan Strong 2002)
  8. Re: [Way OT] Workstation Security (Dan Strong 2002)
  9. Re: [Way OT] Workstation Security (Dale-Lists 2002)
  10. Re: [Way OT] Workstation Security (Dan Strong 2002)
  11. Re: [Way OT] Workstation Security (Donovan Brooke 2002)
  12. Re: [Way OT] Workstation Security (Dan Strong 2002)
  13. Re: [Way OT] Workstation Security (Dan Strong 2002)
  14. Re: [Way OT] Workstation Security (Donovan Brooke 2002)
  15. [Way OT] Workstation Security (Dan Strong 2002)
Dan, I think you've been watching too many James Bond movies. :-)Seriously, I would think that most ppl willing to break in to a place will not be smart enough to extract info from a HD. If you must protect against it, I would suggest a user based machine like NT, *nix, or OSX. (OSX has a lockable case and can 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 agent gas to be eminated through the room. This would be cool cause you could interigate the guy later when he woke up.Donovan Dan 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/ Donovan Brooke

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