that or she's tooo stooopid to work for the SS...
Posted on 03/17/2017 4:10:14 PM PDT by SkyPilot
No, it's fine. TPM and Bitlocker is all that is needed. The problem with using physical protection as protection is it only takes one mistake. With TPM and Bitlocker the only possible mistake is leaving it open. With lid closing turning on sleep the laptop will be a brick to any thief.
... and it was in a bag with a Secret Service logo on it, or that’s what has been reported. But, it’s not that I really believe what’s been reported anymore, the details seem to change hourly. Was it stolen out of a Chevy Malibu with Maryland plates or was it stolen from a 2015 Bajaj motorcycle? Was it stolen at 3 AM or 8 AM? They had a witness, the time is not at question unless they’re inventing the witness.
IF there is full disk encryption and the key is stored in TPM, then the laptop is a brick. The NSA or FBI might get the key off a TPM, but only through some very expensive process. If there is FDE without TPM, then all bets are off.
From Maggie this AM:
Strange story, doesn’t add up.
See also video at link. (SS agent and family just moved in the neighborhood last year.)
http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2017/03/17/secret-service-agent-laptop-stolen/
An unoccupied vehicle with Maryland plates was broken into and a bag with a laptop and other items belonging to a Secret Service agent was stolen, sources told CBS2.
(snip)
Surveillance video possibly from the street shows a white man wearing dark clothing exit the back passenger side of what may be a Chevrolet Malibu after pulling up to the secret service agent’s street.
The car then pulls up to victim’s house and stops with its hazard lights on. The man then exits from the back passenger side, sources said. Video does not show the actual break-in.
The same individual is later seen carrying the agent’s bag walking on Bay 10th Street and Cropsey Avenue, sources said. Besides the laptop, “lapel assignment pins” which included Trump, Clinton Campaign, UNGA and Pope pins were in the bag, sources said.
The NYPD recovered the zippered bag — black with a Secret Service insignia on it — at 1533 Cropsey Ave., sources said. Video from the area of that address shows the suspect throwing the bag onto snow in front of the location and walking past it.
Inside the recovered bag was a collection of coins and other items, but no laptop, sources told CBS2. The recovered items are being tested in a lab.
The laptop has not been recovered. The stolen computer is considered a compromise of national security, CBS News reported.
Mike Mignuolo, who lives next door, told CBS2’s Valerie Castro, he was questioned by police about the incident.
“It’s a little bit exciting, something mysterious,” he said.
Another neighbor said that around 3 a.m. Thursday she was out on her balcony and saw a man walking down the street with a bag over his shoulder.
Here’s the street:
https://www.google.com/maps/place/215+Bay+10th+ST++Brooklyn,+NY+11228/@40.6068492,-74.0130536,3a
That's insufficient. With Bitlocker and TPM the laptop is a brick, no need to erase anything. If it can be booted to enable erasing, it is vulnerable.
If someone gave the reporter a handwritten note, a "3" could be mistaken for an "8" or vice versa.
What does TPM stand for?
And we prosecute for taking pictures inside a submarine?
Put her ass in jail. Now.
Floor plans of Trump Tower would seem to fall under the category of “sensitive materials” since they could be very useful to evildoers.
Being reboot protection makes all the difference for data-at-rest. Note that it provides no security once the computer is booted or if you leave it booted for someone else to grab.
True... but we don’t know what, if anything, was on the laptop. The SS hasn’t said. Everything is speculation.
Reads like a drop off.
Yup Something’s amiss
VERY amiss
And what kind of incompetent Secret Service agent leaves important items visible in a car? Having read the whole article, there is no mention of it being taken from a locked trunk. Later the stolen backpack and some papers were found in the neighborhood.
Really. Is it me, or is this just outright bizarre. Something about it is like a big, flashing, Master Caution light.
No kidding. This stinks like a rotting corpse.
>> Or, the heist was a planned inside job to destroy evidence incriminating Obama, Clinton, and Chucky Schumer!
JMO, but the chances that this schlub had the only copies of the incriminating evidence are close to zero.
Or maybe it was THE TRUMPETER.
that or she's tooo stooopid to work for the SS...
Makes you wonder how careful these fools are with their guns.
Do they leave them in their cars too? Along with the keys in the ignition?
Pathetic.
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