Blanket Discovery for Stolen Laptops

Blanket Discovery for Stolen Laptops
Mark Rasch, 2007-03-12

Mark Rasch discusses the legal issues behind the discovery and recovery of stolen laptops that use LoJack-style homing devices to announce their location, and the location of the thieves, anywhere in the world.

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Blanket Discovery for Stolen Laptops 2007-03-12
Matthew Murphy

If such a discovery process is to work, the first requirement would be that the software utilize a two-way handshake of some kind with the stolen wares. Otherwise, simple IP spoofing could be used to justify a discovery-driven fishing expedition into customer records. As the FBI now knows from exp...

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Two Jobs Mark? 2007-03-12
Anonymous (1 replies)

Noticed your new bio. New Job?...

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Re: Two Jobs Mark? 2007-03-14
Mark D. Rasch

At the risk of self-promotion, I am now a Managing Director in the Technology Department of FTI Consulting, http://www.fticonsulting.com, doing infosec, incident response, privacy and all the stuff I do......

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Blanket Discovery for Stolen Laptops 2007-03-13
James Smith

Could a possible solution to this problem be found in the licensing proceduresfor the IP addresses themselves? IP address space is managed by groups like ARIN in the US. Could the terms under which IP address space is allocated be ammended to require certain levels of discovery by those granted IP...

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Blanket Discovery for Stolen Laptops 2007-03-14
Alastair

A simple blanket order is exactly what the RIAA and MPAA are looking for. We must understand that the law is much like the ecosystem. You make one change and it has ripple effects throughout that may be unforeseen and much worse than the original problem you were trying to solve....

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Blanket Discovery for Stolen Laptops 2007-03-14
Kaasie

Here's one: I steal a laptop. Switch it on. Oops, it needs a password.
What is the first thing I would do? Fdisk the harddisk? Unknown partition? Wipe that one too.
What is left of the Lo-Jack solution? Not a lot....

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Blanket Discovery for Stolen Laptops 2007-03-19
Anonymous

This also lends itself to leaving courts out completely. Someone could come up with a service providing GPS location services like those of cell phones. If such a solution were tied to operational functionality of the laptop (like every hour it phones home or the hardware locks itself down) then you...

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Blanket Discovery for Stolen Laptops 2007-03-21
Anonymous

In any free society, online or in reality comes
chaos. We are chatting about stripping away
what privacy, and privilege paying users have.

So Mark, not getting enough power at your current
job, why not try to extend that power?

Now we want to enable our moronic public
(that of the world) t...

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Blanket Discovery for Stolen Laptops 2007-03-25
Anonymous

Good article, though I don't think it will put any lawyers out of business; they will just change fields: consider
-bringing your laptop from one network to another say your vacation home back to your normal home or office - will it go "off"?
-hackers flooding/DDOS and generating thousands of "LoJ...

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what about wireless mac addrs? 2007-04-13
batz

Despite the fact they can be changed easily, most people don't have the sophistication to change them. A registry of the wireless mac addrs of stolen laptops would make wardriving for them pretty easy. ...

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