[6275] in cryptography@c2.net mail archive
Re: sci fi (was Re: Onhand, clapping? (was Re: NTK now,
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David Honig)
Tue Dec 14 11:50:31 1999
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Date: Tue, 14 Dec 1999 06:24:06 -0800
To: Bill Stewart <bill.stewart@pobox.com>,
"R. A. Hettinga" <rah@shipwright.com>, cryptography@c2.net,
cypherpunks@cyberpass.net
From: David Honig <honig@sprynet.com>
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At 10:46 PM 12/13/99 -0800, Bill Stewart wrote:
>Yes and no. My laptop is much more likely to get stolen than my home PC
>(though less likely to get blackbagged.)
If a laptop is stolen, the loss should be financial, not information
leakage. But the issue here is subversion, not loss; as you say, it would
be quite the mission-impossible to steal, trojan, and replace your laptop
without you noticing. Whereas your office cleaning staff dust off your
work machine nightly. (Hmm, a minor security benefit of the nocturnal life.)
>So you may be walking down the street or sitting in Starbucks and
>some cop or some computer-viking or some industrial data reseller
>may "upgrade" your machine by radio or M.I.B. infrared blinkylight widget;
If you do over-the-air reconfigs of your implants, well, what
can I say. Go ahead and run ActiveX on your pacemaker :-) There are some
things for which security >> convenience.
