Re:Airtight hatchway, etc (Score 1)

This sounds like a James Bond Story.. There is an assumption here that foreign governments have all the "admin" passwords for all company owned laptops in the world. OK, Lets assume this is true, Lets say you have old driver and you did not upgrade to recent version, let's say they have your particular admin password and they took your laptop long enough to modify unpublished registry and enable the particular issue where information is embedded with other ETL messages which are binary encoded. These messages need to be recorded to a file or sent over internet. Sending over internet requires special program which would be detected and blocked. The other choice is to save to an ETL file : In such a James Bond world, I would like to think security packages would be smart enough to locate windows ETW process that always run in the background and create ETL logfile that keeps growing over time. Unless you are debugging a windows issue, there is no reason to run a ETW process or to create ETL file. I would guess it is not difficult for security packages to detect this and block them. Admin password gives such a broad control that I still think there are easier ways to do harm and hide your actions. If you have a security weakness that can only be exploited with Admin password, you should worry first about how to protect your admin password before anything else