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Kleiner Perkins Suffers Security Breach
- Scoundreller 12y ago"The suspect took a docking station, three Lenovo laptops, an Apple desktop computer and two monitors, and an Apple MacBook Air." Sounds more like an opportunistic grab for hardware rather than software/data. Assuming there was any stock crypto at all on the systems, I don't think they have much to worry about their secrets falling into the wrong hands.
- larrys 12y agoDepends on the password you still have to worry about that being cracked by brute force. http://derflounder.wordpress.com/2011/11/23/using-the-command-line-to-unlock-or-decrypt-your-filevault-2-encrypted-boot-drive/ http://derflounder.wordpress.com/2011/11/23/using-the-comman... http://derflounder.wordpress.com/2013/06/11/decrypting-filevault-2-on-mac-os-x-10-8-4-unlock-first-then-decrypt/ http://derflounder.wordpress.com/2013/06/11/decrypting-filev...
- Scoundreller 12y agoWell let's hope the VC firm left sacrificial wallet.dats on the drives. When we see the *coins move, we'll know the drives were successfully decrypted. (Unlikely, but would be neat)
- bgentry 12y agoThe article doesn't mention whether the stolen machines' hard drives were encrypted or not, though I guess we can assume they weren't based on the level of concern being raised =/
- FatalLogic 12y agoYou can't infer that. This story would be reported the same whether the drives were encrypted or not. Kleiner is just covering its ass by reporting the theft to the relevant authorities and affected customers. So far, it's not Kleiner raising concern - they're just doing due diligence. It's the media raising concern. It makes a better story. Kleiner haven't spoken about this to the media yet.