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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
#702> 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…
That all may be true, but what are the odds they didn't enable some kind of remote wipe on there?
Re: Laptop stolen from Pelosi's office during storming of U.S. Capitol, says aide
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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.
Full disk encryption is only as good as the TPM and I’d imagine that nation states have plenty of exploits they could use to bypass them. Not to mention cold boot attacks if the laptop was still running.
If they have the laptop, they also have the TPM. It doesn't prevent decryption if you have the TPM.
Re: Laptop stolen from Pelosi's office during storming of U.S. Capitol, says aide
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What would enemy spies get out of that. Even prima fascie top military secrets like battle plans (those must be updated and shuffled regularly to prevent a situation exactly like that) have very little immediate usefulness. It's 21st century, it's beyond anybody's ability to hide things like size, dislocation, and basic capabilities of your force
Oh you think the generals readily involve old Pelosi with the battle plans? I sort of doubt they would trust her with anything digital that’s supposed to be a secret.
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Re: Laptop stolen from Pelosi's office during storming of U.S. Capitol, says aide
#705> 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…
That all may be true, but what are the odds they didn't enable some kind of remote wipe on there?
Remote wipe only works if you can communicate with the device. If it’s in some backwoods Appalachia klan den I’d imagine there isn’t good connectivity.
Re: Laptop stolen from Pelosi's office during storming of U.S. Capitol, says aide
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That couldn't be further from the truth. A large group of Black Panthers armed with assault weapons stormed the CA capitol in 1967 as part of a protest. https://www.sacbee.com/news/local/history/article148667224.h...
That was almost 3 decades before the Million Man March, and a completely different organization.
The Fruit of Islam weren’t there?
Re: Laptop stolen from Pelosi's office during storming of U.S. Capitol, says aide
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The user doesn't need to enter a password if they are using a TPM.
If they stole the laptop, they also stole the TPM inside the laptop, so having the key stored there doesn't help.
True. I was thinking they'd be using their centralized accounts once they reach the OS logon screen, thus no post-it necessary, but maybe that's not the case.
Re: Laptop stolen from Pelosi's office during storming of U.S. Capitol, says aide
#708This is yet another aspect that makes these recent events so depressing. I don't think I've ever felt this low and ashamed as an American before. How could the government even allow such a security breach to happen?
Don't feel low. A mob of angry citizens storming the capital, happens all over the world and has lead to democratic reform in many a nation.
It is the ensuing "democratic reform" to come that gives me a stomach ache.
Re: Laptop stolen from Pelosi's office during storming of U.S. Capitol, says aide
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Wasn't a protest, it was an attempt at a coup. And the president set the game to easy level.
> attempt at a coup You have a very very low bar for what you think an attempted coup was.
Chased congress out their chambers while they were preparing to certify the next president. Murdered a police officer in the process.
Your definition of a low bar different than mine.
Re: Laptop stolen from Pelosi's office during storming of U.S. Capitol, says aide
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For those downvoting this comment, here's a source: https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/legal-issues/capitol-si...
Hilarious, but definitely not a spy. The Russians aren't so amateur as to send an undercover agent to the US who can't speak English. If they missed the opportunity at the Capitol the other day to plant listening devices though, they must be kicking themselves now.
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