On Sep 12, 2011, at 9:05 AM, George N. White III wrote:
> <http://computer-forensics.sans.org/blog/2011/01/28/mac-os-forensics-howto-simple-ram-acquisition-analysis-mac-memory-reader-part-1>
> found clear-text passwords in memory -- the bad guy just has to
> pop a smoke grenade, yell fire, wait for everyone to run out the door
> and get to your machine before the screen saver kicks in, so the key
> is whether you have trained yourself well enough to follow the above
> advice while running for your life. Unless you suspect something you
> might not know your password had been stolen.
If I'm sitting at my laptop when somebody yells "fire," it just saves me the
time of finding my laptop. Not for security purposes, but because it's easier
to carry my life and business records out with me than have to reconstruct them
later.
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