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to: ARNOUD BAKKER
from: SCOTT MCNAY
date: 1997-12-19 16:47:00
subject: Code in Boot Sector

 *** Arnoud Bakker wrote in a message to Scott McNay:
 SM> Someone could just pull the hard drive out and put it on another
 SM> computer, therefore, to be properly paranoid, you'd need the entire
 SM> hard drive encrypted.  You're begging for trouble when you start
 SM> thinking along those lines. 
AB> Just encrypting the MBR will do the trick (user on other
AB> disk can't read your partitions then)
Oh??  That certainly wouldn't stop ME.  That's quite easy to get around (if 
you know how, of course ;).  Setting up the partitions funny before 
encrypting would help, but I'd still be able to figure it out.
 SM> in a secure area; I had to show my ID and a copy of the work order,
 SM> and sign a sign-in sheet in order to get in to work on the
 SM> computer.  They would turn on flashing lights so that everyone in
 SM> the place knew that guests were present who did not have proper
 SM> security clearance.
AB> WOw... were was that?
Ft. Hood, Texas (USA).  Last I heard, it was the largest military base in the 
free world.  It's an open base, but certain areas are restricted access.
--Scott.
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