Re: [PLUG] Laptop recovery--useful data to collect?

[Randall A Sindlinger <rsindlin+plug@seas.upenn.edu>]

On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 10:01:52PM -0400, Gordon Dexter wrote:
>
> I know this probably won't do much in most cases, since professional 
> thieves will just format it and resell it, and it might still be hard to 
> recover the laptop even with all this info, but this is in part a 
> theoretical exercise/just for fun.  Ideas?
>

If you make a honeypot "banking" encrypted directory, you'll probably be
more likely to get a bite.  Why reformat when you can copy it off, crack
it, and get account numbers, etc?

-Randall

> --Gordon
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