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"Evil Maid" doesn't care about your passwords -- watch out for the thieves though

"Evil Maid" doesn't care about your passwords -- watch out for the thieves though

Posted Oct 29, 2009 17:35 UTC (Thu) by zzxtty (subscriber, #45175)
In reply to: "Evil Maid" doesn't care about your passwords -- watch out for the thieves though by ikm
Parent article: "Evil Maid" attack against disk encryption

"Just lock your valuables in a room's safe before you leave the room!"

I suspect a lot of this paranoia is directed at people visiting China and the idea of state sponsored industrial espionage. In such a case you cannot trust the hotel room safe, in fact you cannot trust anything.

Take your own hardened case and 50 or so quality padlocks?


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