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> The team began this investigation more than a decade ago, when an F-Secure employee had a laptop stolen from a hotel room. Some of the staff began to wonder h
by jccc 8y ago
> The team began this investigation more than a decade ago, when an F-Secure employee had a laptop stolen from a hotel room. Some of the staff began to wonder how easy it would be to hack the keycard locks
This seems like a very breezy assumption they're making about how that laptop got stolen.
People who run conference events (and who manage hotels) know that things like this are the deeds of hotel staff, not masked bandits picking the lock on your door.
- gabriel34 8y agoMost likely, yes. The target value should be directly related to the strength of the security measures though. The information on the laptop might be worth enough for a targeted specialized attack
- ianhawes 8y agoThieves steal laptops. Sophisticated actors backdoor laptops. That’s how you know it was the hotel staff.
- stordoff 8y agoI read that as being the motivation, not necessarily that they thought that's how the laptop was stolen.