On Wednesday 23 November 2005 21:29, Jeff Gercken wrote:
> I've been chewing on this idea for a while and am hoping someone on the
> list may help me with a concern.
>
> The notion is that big company B will distribute CDs to employees to use
[...]
> This seems fairly straightforward but then why isn't anyone doing this
> already?  What haven't I considered?

Hi,

sounds interesting (and i personally like this idea), but i think it is much 
more easier/reliable (but also more expensive) for a company to equip their 
employees with special pre-installed notebooks that have an encrypted 
filesystem together with some kind of hardware-token for authentication.

The problem is, if you cannot trust the hardware you're booting the cd from, 
then there is not much use in any well-designed security-boot-cd. Just think 
of tampered hardware with some kind of hardware-keylogger installed (for 
example http://www.keyghost.com/)

I think this is just one aspect why so many companies spend so much money in 
expensive notebooks for their external workers: they have control over the 
software _and_ the hardware.

Maybe the use of TPA-Architectures will solve this problem in the future 
(*lol*), but i think this is completely another story :)

regards,
Helmut


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