Maybe, maybe not... I suspect that, unless more than one incident of this occurs, it could well have been someone peeking over the guy's shoulder while he logged into the laptop at a keynote.

As beautiful as paranoia can be to someone who secures things for a living, it must also stand to chance that, as Freud said: "sometimes a cigar is just a cigar".

Otherwise, we either have one of two conditions here:

1) someone really knows WTF they're doing and decided to have some fun with a well-known CISSP type, or...

2) he got "scanned" by a pair of observant eyeballs watching the laptop keyboard.

On a serious note though - obscurity only cuts down the pool of people willing to invest the time to overcome it, not the determination and itnelligence of a given individual who really wants inside that particular box.

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