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Hotels- Where do you leave your laptop when you leave the room?

JEDI

JEDI

Lifer
i usually leave it in my suitcase.

but at the hilton and Venetian, i've actually just left it on top of the desk the whole week. (password protected.)
 
If I leave it out at a hotel, it's locked to a desk or something else that's immobile. I always carry a laptop lock with me.
 
under the center of the mattress then make sure the sheets do not leave any hint that the mattress was disturbed.
 
SheHateMe said:
I just leave it on the desk. What are you guys afraid of?
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Housekeeping or anyone else who gains access to you room walking off with it. Aside from being out a potentially very expensive laptop if you don't use full disk encryption you personal information could potentially be compromised.
 
I'm assuming we're talking about hotel rooms. 😉 On the desk, password protected. If I haven't set it up yet, it's just in the case. Suppose I could lock it to the desk but meh.
 
good question...i dopnt know. i brought a laptop to hotel once but i kept it locked in my car when i wasnt in the room.
 
Passwords don't do anything when someone has physical access.....Full disk encryption, yes, but passwords, no. I take mine with me, or lock in car.
 
TheGodFrogger said:
When given physical access to a machine that is merely password protected at the OS level, the password can be circumvented within a few seconds. Windows or Unix/Linux.
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Yep, and its fun to do that, because people think I'm a super 1337 hax0r. But in reality it's super easy to do.

I'll get calls sometimes that someone forgot their password and they want me to format the machine, then I tell them I can just recover the password and they're like "Woah you can do that? That's awesome!" Pretty much in the same tone as when Homer says "Computers can do that?".
 
Red Squirrel said:
Yep, and its fun to do that, because people think I'm a super 1337 hax0r. But in reality it's super easy to do.

I'll get calls sometimes that someone forgot their password and they want me to format the machine, then I tell them I can just recover the password and they're like "Woah you can do that? That's awesome!" Pretty much in the same tone as when Homer says "Computers can do that?".
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Your just getting into BIOS and booting off a different drive (or USB drive) and running a password recovery program right?.
 
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