On 26 Feb 2003 06:25, Luke Graham emitted: > Call me nasty but this mail looks dodgy anyway. Take a really close look at > his website and its links. Surely one of his "extensive range of > experienced IT consultants" could help him out? This does seem to be right > in their field after all... and he does have physical access to the drive, > obviously.
Yeah, I did look at the website, and I have to go with "looks dodgy" as well. Condolences are offered if you have indeed lost a family member, but I have the same query as above. I also agree that, even if the request is dodgy, the technique is so public-domain that sharing it is a 'so what' situation. So, why am I writing? I want to make a prediction. The prediction is that, in Malcolm Gardner Associates' training materials and courses on "Data protection" there will now appear an anecdote about how by simply claiming that there was a death in the family, their "anti-fraud" experts were able to convince a bunch of "hackers" to assist them in "breaking the security" of a linux hard-drive. The same sort of rabid, ignorant fear-mongering that is the stock-in-trade of far too many security consultants. Go ahead, please, prove me wrong. -- AJ Armstrong [EMAIL PROTECTED] Memes are a hoax. Pass it on. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
