[H-GEN] Why bother with root when you can take the box?

[Bruce Campbell]

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It reads like the machines taken were email servers, which implies that
theres a lot of potentially useful, albiet piecemeal, information still on
them.   yikes.

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Bruce.


Excerpt from SANS newsletter:

 --Two Computers Stolen From Sydney Airport in Broad Daylight (5 September 2003)

Two men posing as technicians got past security at cargo processing and
intelligence center at Sydney International Airport, gained access to the
top security mainframe room, and made off with two computers, wheeling
them out of the room on a cart.  Australian Customs service said "no
sensitive operational data [were] lost."  The theft occurred on August
27th; Customs neglected to mention the incident at a recent parliamentary
inquiry.

http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/09/04/1062548967124.html
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/55/32677.html

[Editor's Note (Schneier): A useful reminder that computer-related theft
doesn't have to be high-tech.]


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