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Thanks for everyone's help!!! I think I have a nice security plan.

Windogg

Lifer
Alright I think with everyone's help, I have a sound plan that will raise the chances of recovering any laptops or even desktop should one every disappear.

1) I setup a personal proxy in the office that all systems connect to for blocks. This means I don't have to setup each one to leave the proxy because it's all handled by the pproxy. Password changes will not cause wandering cows.

2) Dnet client is installed as a service on all systems.

3) 500 blocks are buffered on each system. Small notebooks that get very hot crack 100 blocks per session and then stop (of course I could forget that feature for people I am not partial to 🙂). Larger notebooks and desktops will crack 100% of the time.

4) If the PC is in the office, the blocks get flushed to the pproxy.

5) If one road and use connects via secure dialin, blocks get flushed through the VPN and back to the proxy

6) Should the system get stolen, the pproxy will not be found. I have setup the client to passively look for a dialup connection and fallback to a dnet server. Should the thief connect, any cracked blocks should be flushed to Dnet.

I'm also hoping to "dupe" any potential thief into dialing up. I may load a some sort of dialup connection (NetZero etc...) and have a nice text file on the desktop called, "My Passwords" of something like that. Hopefully some theif will try to pry a little and dialup.

It is impossible for a thief to use our crypto token because it requires a personal PIN to turn on and a very exact dialin procedure.

How does this all sound.

Windogg
 
I couldn't have done it without help.

Train, yes a reformat kills the entire plan. I'm guessing that 90% of thefts are carried out by petty thiefs that know little about formatting and stuff. My big concern in the data anyway so if they reformat it right off the bat, then that is no longer of concern.

Windogg
 
Bottom line is of course that Mgt. buys into having the client installed. The plan is reasonable, rational, and makes perfect sense. It's so unobtrusive that most thief morons wouldn't even question it (if they could find it)

It's positively brilliant. A Win-win situation.
 
well shoot man, why not rig it like a logac? have it tell you its on, and if you say, hey that one was stolen, have it start trying to trace itself.... a stupid thief would get f'd every time
 
I already have my boss's blessing. He's really cool about things like that.

Train, I like that Laptop Lojack idea. 🙂

Windogg
 
Humm, the sad part is that it's so feesable, that it would probably work. Once the dot com maket is back, we may hit digital gold.😀
 
i haven't read this forum in a while so im kinda lost in this one. can someone point me towards maybe some of the threads that cam before this one? or just briefly explain what going on 🙂
 
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