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Sensitive Data Stolen Via Digital Cameras

Jack writes "ITO is running an interesting story on a new security threat connecting digital cameras and hackers." From the article: "Following a spate of reports about Bluetooth and iPods devices being used to steal sensitive data from organizations, businesses are now urging to be vigilant as hackers use digital cameras to sidestep security measures. 'Camsnuffling', the latest IT managers headache being used to computer attackers to extract and store data with the help of digital camera." We've previously discussed this problem.

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  1. Re:Memmory Sticks next? by malraid · · Score: 5, Funny

    That why our IT department fills every hole in every computer with epoxy. It's bitch when we have to fix something, but then, a broken computer is not a security threat.

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  2. May as well... by grumpyman · · Score: 3, Funny

    Disallow pen and paper, and blind-fold visitors until they are escorted to where they are supposed to go.

  3. Camsnuffling by digitaldc · · Score: 3, Funny

    I thought 'camsnuffling' was breathing heavily through the nose while taking a picture?

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  4. Free Luna! by Thud457 · · Score: 2, Funny

    How am I supposed to smuggle jokes for Mike into the computer complex if you instate a policy like that?!!!

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  5. Julius Caesar by giorgiofr · · Score: 4, Funny

    Yo, there was this guy long time ago, you know, called C.J. Caesar MC, and he was, like, worried that the Man would steal his secretz, 'namean?, so he came up with this gimmick where he wrote something on a piece of dead skin, how gross is that?, man, but if you had read it it wouldn't have made no sense, but if you had known HOW to read it, then hell yeah, lotsa sense there... than his buddy later called this thingamajig ROT-13 or some such nerdy word, and then lotsa other guys did the same, but more powerful...

    I hope you liked this short intro to ENCRYPTION and understand how it can solve some of your problems. Thank you and goodnight.

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  6. My secret hiding place by Hoi+Polloi · · Score: 3, Funny

    "just slip one in your pocket."

    I could've been hiding it in my POCKET? Oh shit...

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    1. Re:My secret hiding place by Kelson · · Score: 3, Funny

      Your USB drive doesn't happen to look like a gold watch, does it?

  7. Re:Memmory Sticks next? by size1one · · Score: 2, Funny
    "Geez, if they're that worried about security they need to be concerned about anything that stores info"

    I have a photographic memory so my employer forces me to work blindfolded.

  8. Re:Memmory Sticks next? by AndroidCat · · Score: 2, Funny

    Jeez, next they'll stop me from plugging in a 802.11g USB adapter and connecting with a friend in the parking lot. Talk about paranoid!

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  9. Re:Let's start with the obvious... by AndroidCat · · Score: 2, Funny

    Digital cameras are too much work and attract attention. I just bring in a crate of Silly Putty for copying documents.

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  10. Re:Memmory Sticks next? by ozric99 · · Score: 2, Funny

    Yeah, too right. Security is king in the Farm Service Agency. Gotta keep those tomato crops safe from daggum terrists.

  11. Re:Big zoom cameras are something too. by TedCheshireAcad · · Score: 2, Funny

    Could you, uh, point us to some, uh....evidence? I would like to review the legitimacy of the case...yeah...that's it.

  12. Re:Enough with the Neologisms Already! by Bloke+down+the+pub · · Score: 3, Funny

    If only someone could coin a catchy, pithy word for the phenomenon of coining pithy, catchy words for things.

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