Dan Shafer wrote:
First, there are several technologies that work around this problem.
I am working with a startup that has a USB device that handles this
issue nicely and I know of a couple of others. The problem is hardly
intractable.
I'll be glad to hear about them when they are available - but today
there is no apparent solution. I believe this is a hard problem. Today
many Internet cafes don't allow you to attach USB devices. It needs to
be more than a read-only storage device (since that could be read,
copied and faked). And it must not require any communication from the
keyboard or other system-based input devices.
I'm sure it's a tractable problem - but I don't believe it's easy, and I
think it will take a lot to convince me it's secure.
Second, what happens when you lose your laptop or have it stolen?
This happens with shocking frequency these days and it's getting worse.
Nothing. I never use any "remember this password for me" features (for
the important passwords), I have key files in encrypted directories,
I'd be a lot more concerned about THAT security issue than with the
loss of data over relatively secured and busy Internet wires and
signals.
I'm not concerned about Internet wires and signals - I happily use
Internet banking over public wifi - it's getting the data from the
keyboard to the wire, or account info from the wire to the screen that
worry me.
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