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Have a shit battery + full disk encryption + linux with broken hibernate support :D
Did Linux ever fix the hibernate stuff? I remember 5 years ago, it was a MUST to disable it, because the system would go to hibernate and never wake up again without a hard restart.
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They turned down an offer from the Pentagon to supplement manpower, days before the protest. Why? A police department with an intelligence unit couldn't guess that things might get a little out of hand when 3 weeks before, the President publicly used Twitter to ask his followers[1] to attend a "wild" protest on January 6th? Not that an intelligence unit was required as the plans were in the open. I have great difficu…
For this specific decision I think we can put it down to incompetence over malice - it'd presumably be easy for whoever was co-ordinating it dismiss all the riot talks as bluster and figure it'd just be yet another protest with a lot of shouting. I imagine we'll hear more about it, but I would be surprised if it was a co-ordinated effort in concert with the rioters (I don't know what to call them). The footage of pol…
There is not enough information to come to either conclusion, but I would like to think the DC police leadership didn't/doesn't plumb those depths of incompetence. The public (and congress) deserves answers on what happened and why.
> belonged to a conference room and was used for presentations Yikes. My first though was - oh this should be no big deal chances are there are good policies in place for laptops that go home with people. Then I realized it is a shared/central machine which means it probably has the most effed up and relaxed security in the fleet, post-it notes with passwords taped to the palm rests, and god knows what else. IT depar…
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Locking the screen doesn't enable FDE though, does it?
What attacks are you thinking of? A cold boot attack while you're on the toilet? Or that the laptop is stolen? First and foremost you need to ensure physical security anyway. Otherwise a dedicated attacker can also just install a bug.
What is a good strategy for most convenience while securing private data on a laptop that could be stolen? Full disk encryption is good for when the machine is powered off. What about for the scenario when it gets swiped during the work day when I'm in the bathroom?
> What about for the scenario when it gets swiped during the work day when I'm in the bathroom? Can you help me understand what attacks you think can be done with a locked screen, powered on laptop ? (given Full disk encryption is on)
If they followed proper security it would be encrypted. All of our Macs at my employer automatically have it on.
Wow. Not the last thing that we are going to find out that was stolen I'm sure. This whole thing is straight up crazy.
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I've traveled to countries before whose offices of government are behind very large fences, protected by unfriendly looking men standing behind heavy machine guns in armored vehicles – and the guide books are very clear that you are not to take photos of them. I much prefer the approach taken in the USA, where our offices of government are accessible to the people that the government serves. It's very good that I can…
Seems like it ought to be possible to have both, to some degree. I don't want the capitol to be a fortress, but they need to prevent stuff like this. I mean... the US spends massive amounts of money on the police and military. I think it should be kind of like a non-Newtonian fluid. Walk in slowly and peacefully and it's ok. Try and punch it, it solidifies quickly.
What's the protocol to secure all devices/network after incident like this week? Should all hardware left behind considered possibly compromised?
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They were understaffed, and it was clear that they could not protect both the building and the people. They correctly prioritized evacuating the people.
Incorrect. Capitol police is a 2300 officer department with a huge annual budget. The puppets in place were complicit in letting this happen.
So you are saying that the Capitol police succeeded in creating a honeypot that was meant to embarrass Trump?