There's a specific type of attack known as the Bad Maid, and it started in China. American businessmen would travel over there, and go out to dinner with their business clients. And while they were gone, a maid, actually an operative for the state security services, would come in and disassemble their laptop, removing the hard drive and cloning it, then putting it back together. You couldn't prevent it except with high-level full disk encryption. You could detect it with what's known as the nail polish trick, applying it to the screws in the case to see if they get broken by a screwdriver.
Smart businesspeople travel with empty laptops, and when they get there and need data, log in through VPNs to a remote server and they don't travel with anything remotely confidential. And when they get home, that empty laptop is destroyed because it may well have had malware installed on it.
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There's a specific type of attack known as the Bad Maid, and it started in China. American businessmen would travel over there, and go out to dinner with their business clients. And while they were gone, a maid, actually an operative for the state security services, would come in and disassemble their laptop, removing the hard drive and cloning it, then putting it back together. You couldn't prevent it except with high-level full disk encryption. You could detect it with what's known as the nail polish trick, applying it to the screws in the case to see if they get broken by a screwdriver. Smart businesspeople travel with empty laptops, and when they get there and need data, log in through VPNs to a remote server and they don't travel with anything remotely confidential. And when they get home, that empty laptop is destroyed because it may well have had malware installed on it.