Comments on: Sector Conference Day One http://www.liquidmatrix.org/blog/2007/11/20/sector-day-one/ Bringing Fire To The Village: Your Source For Computer, Network & Information Security News from Dave Lewis, Security Blogger Mon, 13 Oct 2008 13:05:49 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: Ryan Poppa http://www.liquidmatrix.org/blog/2007/11/20/sector-day-one/#comment-65237 Ryan Poppa Thu, 22 Nov 2007 05:44:54 +0000 http://www.liquidmatrix.org/blog/2007/11/20/sector-day-one/#comment-65237 It's ridiculous to know the kind of information that you can gather on a GO Train. I take the train almost every day downtown and there is always two or three people per car who are using their laptop. It's amazing that they don't realize that there are people who are watching their every keystroke. I remember sitting beside someone who works for a very large bank here in Toronto who was having difficulty logging into his computer. He very loudly called his support team and s-p-e-l-l-e-d out his corporate username and password to everyone in earshot. And that's not even the half of it. A former coworker of mine from a previous job would fill in the metro crossword with the username/password that he saw someone log into their computer with. He then would hand the paper to them when he got off the train You can get a lot of information about who people are and what they do just by reading their e-mail over their shoulder. It's scary It’s ridiculous to know the kind of information that you can gather on a GO Train. I take the train almost every day downtown and there is always two or three people per car who are using their laptop.

It’s amazing that they don’t realize that there are people who are watching their every keystroke. I remember sitting beside someone who works for a very large bank here in Toronto who was having difficulty logging into his computer. He very loudly called his support team and s-p-e-l-l-e-d out his corporate username and password to everyone in earshot. And that’s not even the half of it. A former coworker of mine from a previous job would fill in the metro crossword with the username/password that he saw someone log into their computer with. He then would hand the paper to them when he got off the train

You can get a lot of information about who people are and what they do just by reading their e-mail over their shoulder. It’s scary

]]> By: A Random View of an Insecure World » Blog Archive » Sector http://www.liquidmatrix.org/blog/2007/11/20/sector-day-one/#comment-65236 A Random View of an Insecure World » Blog Archive » Sector Thu, 22 Nov 2007 05:34:25 +0000 http://www.liquidmatrix.org/blog/2007/11/20/sector-day-one/#comment-65236 [...] a pretty good summary (and pictures!) of the talks that occurred. You can find his summary on Day 1 here and Day 2 [...] [...] a pretty good summary (and pictures!) of the talks that occurred. You can find his summary on Day 1 here and Day 2 [...]

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