Ok what Time Zone do you have set on your computer?

-----Original Message-----
From: Peter van Houten [mailto:[email protected]] 
Sent: Saturday, February 06, 2010 5:55 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: Taking a Tablet PC out of the country

Well, maybe not that friendly. Ridiculously long passphrases won't help here. 
Beware of housekeepers bearing [hidden] gifts:

http://theinvisiblethings.blogspot.com/2009/10/evil-maid-goes-after-truecrypt.html

Having pointed that out, I do recommend and use Truecrypt extensively myself 
(not with whole-disk encryption however) and, I suppose, this is simply one of 
those social engineering warnings.

--
Peter van Houten

On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 3:04 PM, Richard Stovall<[email protected]> wrote:
> Probable? Possible, absolutely. I've gone all over the place with a 
> laptop and haven't ever had issue one at home or abroad. That said, 
> Truecrypt is your friend. Encrypt the whole volume with a ridiculously 
> long passphrase and be done with it. Who cares if they copy it at that 
> point.
>>> On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 5:52 PM, Kurt Buff<[email protected]>  wrote:
>>>
>>> I know you said there isn't any, but are you really truly *SURE* 
>>> there isn't any patient or other confidential data on this machine? 
>>> I would include hashes of domain credentials in that category.
>>>
>>> If there is, be aware that all computers are subject to search and 
>>> probable copying of data at the border.
>>>
>>> Other than that, I don't see any real issues.
>>>
>>> On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 13:21, Raper, Jonathan - Eagle 
>>> <[email protected]>  wrote:
>>>> I have a physician who wants to take a company owned Tablet PC to 
>>>> Argentina in a month or so. This doesn t give me a warm fuzzy, but 
>>>> I don t have anything concrete to give as a reason to tell him no, 
>>>> aside from that. I have a hard enough time with docs wanting to 
>>>> take the Tablets out of the office to their homes 
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Do any of you have any good information on reasons that I can give 
>>>> that it wouldn t be a good idea? There should not be any data on 
>>>> the system, as he will be using Xen to get access to all of our 
>>>> systems using domain credentials, so data theft is not a big 
>>>> concern in this particular case.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Thanks in advance,
>>>>
>>>> Jonathan L. Raper, A+, MCSA, MCSE
>>>> Technology Coordinator
>>>> Eagle Physicians&  Associates, PA
>>>> [email protected]
>>>> www.eaglemds.com

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