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Old 11-22-2013, 15:16   #12
Badger52
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Originally Posted by PRB View Post
I wonder how many 'sleeping' virus's exist in the US. All of the businessmen that travel/work in China using their systems and then plug in their devices back home.
If you travel/work in many of those regions & have ever left your laptop in your hotel unattended it's already theirs. I'm kinda old school, but this makes a case for some robust 'thing' you can have on your person at all times if you have to work that way. And then be prepared to discard it, with no remorse, for the never-connected device you have with what's of genuine value. Our big-ticket adversaries send their people to years-long university-grade programs just focusing on offensive cyberwar. As 35NCO said, it's when, not if.
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