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> Trusting co-workers has nothing to do with it. Any random person walking by could do it - cleaning staff, maintenance folks, a guest or visitor, someone ‘surf
by guappa 3y ago
> Trusting co-workers has nothing to do with it. Any random person walking by could do it - cleaning staff, maintenance folks, a guest or visitor, someone ‘surfing’ in behind someone, etc.
Precisely. So if you want to be safe, shut down completely the machine. Then all of the people you listed can't access it.
- lazide 3y agoAnd then wait minutes for things to start up, even if things reopen to their prior state perfectly. As compared to seconds to lock/unlock. Suspend adds major security issues above and beyond either of these scenarios. The majority of scenarios, none of those folks are able to do much to a locked machine without powering it off, which resets it to the state you were referencing. They could install a hardware keylogger of course, and none of these protections would help. It’s all tradeoffs. SCIF’s are better still after all, and a nightmare productivity wise.
- guappa 3y ago> And then wait minutes for things to start up, even if things reopen to their prior state perfectly. As compared to seconds to lock/unlock. The price of security is always wasted time. > The majority of scenarios, none of those folks are able to do much to a locked machine without powering it off But they are able to unlock it if they saw you unlock it yesterday. If you have an encrypted hard drive and the key is in a usb you carry with you, they can't do anything.
- lazide 3y agoWhat is your point exactly?