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| OsamaÂ’s Diabolical Plan for Secure E-Mail: Thumb Drives |
| 2011-05-17 |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #3 I knew an ingenious individual who provided a witty way to defeat industrial espionage. His company did a lot of business with France, whose intelligence service tried repeatedly to steal data from employees traveling to France. They started by copying their laptop hard drives and putting viruses on them. So they put their data on thumb drives and didn't have hard drives in their laptops. So the French would confiscate and copy their thumb drives in customs after detaining them. So his solution was to rewire the thumb drive with an inverted plug. Unless a special socket adapter was used, when it was inserted into a USB drive, it would be fried. That was simply a ha-ha, however, because it just became too expensive to do business in France. |
| Posted by: Anonymoose 2011-05-17 10:30 |
| #2 I wonder if he realised that plugging in a USB device is recorded by the O/S? |
| Posted by: Bright Pebbles 2011-05-17 09:50 |
| #1 I think the author of this piece is being a little disingenuous. Yes, there was the risk that he'd be getting a virus. BUT. Since his home computer wasn't directly connected to the net, it limited the amount of damage a typical virus could do, since a lot of the viruses these days are designed for a networked environment. |
| Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain 2011-05-17 07:50 |