On Thu, 31 Oct 2002 14:03:00 CST, Kevin.M-CTR.Shannonat_private said: > I work for the Federal Government (in a contractor capacity) and I believe > that this is one of the reasons that the Fed is banning wireless devices at > many of it's installations. This looks like an incomplete threat analysis to me, as the ban probably *should* be 'electronic devices' in general, rather than wireless... > A mobile wireless device could gain access to secure resources, copy said > resources, and who cares if Locard's exchange principle applies or not? > The wireless device could leave events in the logs, but it would not > matter. Said perp. could go mobile, with the data he/she has acquired and > then destroy the wireless device. Said perp could also load the stuff onto the PDA/whatever, and wait till 5 minutes after he leaves before hitting 'send'(*). If you have a handheld that has 16 or 32M of purloined data on it, it may even be faster to take it home and upload to a PC via its cradle rather than do the modem-over-digital-phone thing and only get 5K/sec upload speed.... Think "modified MP3 player with record capability". -- Valdis Kletnieks Computer Systems Senior Engineer Virginia Tech (*) There's a *reason* why a certain TLA banned "Furbies". They did a more detailed threat analysis, it seems....
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