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Laptop stolen from Pelosi's office during storming of U.S. Capitol, says aide

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Re: Laptop stolen from Pelosi's office during storming of U.S. Capitol, says aide

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Post by Sohcahtoa82 »

djsumdog wrote: post #171
amyjess wrote: post #111

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They took selfies with the insurrectionists. They were complicit.

> insurrectionists Peaceful protestors. Were the BLM people who stormed city hall in Seattle insurrectionists? Where the Black Panthers who took the California State Capitol in the 1970s insurrectionists? Stop with the bullshit name games. These were not rioters. They didn't set anything on fire. They should not have stolen or broken anything. That's wrong and bad and should be condemned. Those people should get fede…

> Were the BLM people who stormed city hall in Seattle insurrectionists? Where the Black Panthers who took the California State Capitol in the 1970s insurrectionists?

No, because their goal wasn't to overturn a legally held election.

> They had no plan.

You got that part right.

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Post by selimthegrim »

jeffbee wrote: post #202
doomslice wrote: post #167

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Maybe this will change your mind: https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=20m04s&v=cJOgGsC0G9U

I admire the restraint on display here, but if even one of those guys had been black, the cops would have iced every one of them. Imagine someone grabbing a cop's gas mask at a BLM march and not being dead 2 seconds later.

There is video of DC police putting a bit of stick about later after the curfew

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Post by tick_tock_tick »

jeffbee wrote: post #202
doomslice wrote: post #167

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Maybe this will change your mind: https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=20m04s&v=cJOgGsC0G9U

I admire the restraint on display here, but if even one of those guys had been black, the cops would have iced every one of them. Imagine someone grabbing a cop's gas mask at a BLM march and not being dead 2 seconds later.

Strongly disagree I firmly believe the reason the police held back so much was the number of guns in the crowd. They want to make it home at the end of the day too.

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Post by m463 »

whalesalad wrote: post #136

> 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…

Maybe stealing it also removed a bunch of foreign operative bugs and keyloggers :)

"How can we remove this compromised system from the building without letting on that we know"

"just have a 'theft' remove it!"

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Post by ChuckNorris89 »

ianhawes wrote: post #265
laurent92 wrote: post #186

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I mean, why are we paying the NSA, if Congress has unencrypted laptops. Literally their role to recommend security methods for encryption of companies and US interests. That is what I wonder every time I’m required to throw away my bottle of water and remove clothes to board a plane.

I believe this activity now falls under the purview of CISA. I read yesterday that all computers issued for Congressional staffers after 2017 have full disk encryption enabled by default.

So all laptops they were issued before 2017 didn't have full disk encryption.

Do you hear that? That's the sound of me face-palming.

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Post by pnutjam »

setpatchaddress wrote: post #102
pySSK wrote: post #72

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I agree with the more open approach, but shouldn't her office have a simple keycard or combo lock on the door? Even Starbucks toilets have better security. From the pictures I saw, she was still logged in and had the evacuation message onscreen. I'm guessing she didn't have 'require login after screensaver' option enabled. If the account is still logged in, this is a massive breach!

it was somebody else's account. Also, see @foone's thread here: https://twitter.com/Foone/status/1346924327996772354 tl;dr: the government has appropriate computer security in place to prevent this sort of thing, and it's not clear what the deal was with that particular computer.

how hard is + L to lock your screen?

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Post by jerkstate »

debt wrote: post #252
whalesalad wrote: post #136

> 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…

"no big deal" A stolen laptop is usually not considered "no big deal" basically everywhere I worked.

Really? Every place I have worked with more than about 50 employees has used full drive encryption, so a laptop being stolen is not an infosec risk at all.

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Post by tehjoker »

Cool, hopefully it is loaded with damaging emails. She needs to go. I bet if it is there's loads of discussion denigrating the American people and planning to sacrifice their lives and their finances pointlessly during the pandemic. Obviously, the coupists believe even worse things, but what do I care if my political opponents destroy each other?

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Post by grogenaut »

whalesalad wrote: post #136

> 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…

I worked on a barely do-not-distribute. Someone's spouse took a project member's laptop as hostage for alimony. Within 45 minutes of discovery and a phone call to the army equivalent of the FBI, agents were at the spouse's work and home searching for the laptop.

Lucky for the spouse they thought it was the personal laptop (it was not marked) so they weren't prosecuted.

This laptop could be much worse, or just fine.

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Post by dahdum »

ladyanita22 wrote: post #240
geofft wrote: post #179

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The presentation machines at my workplace (in addition to being desktops in a locked cabinet, because why would they leave the room?) just allow you to remote desktop back to your real workstation or to a VM. They have nothing locally. I think that's a good solution to avoiding over-granting privileges.

How can you lock up Windows like that?

Thin clients are the easiest way to handle it, all they can do is connect to a terminal server, no local storage.
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