Comment Re:Not so "absurd" (Score 1) 679
It's not just Pen drives, or USB drives, or iPods. Corporate IT has long been pretty out of the loop as to possible information theft methods.
Example: They told me my powerbook wouldn't work on the network. A SMB connection and 20 minutes later, I had pulled down the entire HR partition as a proof of concept for them.
Oops.
It was massively critical data, just a lot of forms and crap, but the point was that they have no idea what is capable with stuff. All one needs is access to the network. If I don't have that, my laptop becomes a firewire drive in a reboot ("T-connection" - holding down the T key while starting up a recent mac will make it a firewire device). What is next? pat downs at the door of the office?
Example: They told me my powerbook wouldn't work on the network. A SMB connection and 20 minutes later, I had pulled down the entire HR partition as a proof of concept for them.
Oops.
It was massively critical data, just a lot of forms and crap, but the point was that they have no idea what is capable with stuff. All one needs is access to the network. If I don't have that, my laptop becomes a firewire drive in a reboot ("T-connection" - holding down the T key while starting up a recent mac will make it a firewire device). What is next? pat downs at the door of the office?
