On 28/06/2011 15:53, Herbert Graf wrote:
> Sony stored millions of user passwords in plain text. No-one knew that
> until they were breached. That little tidbit of insanity has permanently
> made my choice with regards to Sony products.
The Sony CD Audio installation of Root Kits didn't help their image=20
either. Another reason why my always turning of autorun on anything was=20
not paranoid after all.

Or the fact with a Mini-Disc the ONLY to read your OWN copyright live=20
recording was to use Analogue Playback. You could WRITE to it digitally.

I remember there was a chip that even had a metal gauze above part or=20
all of chip and a guy managed to still probe it and recover encryption=20
key. Physical access and all security bets are off.

Beware Geeks bearing Gifts too!

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/06/27/mission_impossible_mouse_attack/

This is NOT using USB storage. The "doctored" mouse uses USB HID=20
profile. So the driver on Linux, OS X, Windows will accept keypresses,=20
not just conventional mouse movement.

You don't need to be administrator, or use sudo  to run a console=20
window, ftp the disk to a remote server etc  ... for example.


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