No, from what I saw, they are using the standard business class HP nc6000 series and a few nx9000 series. The encryption was in fact PGP full disk encryption, but I'm fairly certain it came from HP that way. I saw enough of the login screens when I was there that I can be near certain (no cameras allowed, so no proof in that form) that it was PGP full disk.
Do you know what Raytheon is? They don't have tricked home users. Most of the people in the company are overpaid engineers designing defense "things" that are usually top secret classified. They had a warranty repair deal with HP that any hardware issues we had to come out within about four hours of getting the part and fixing the problem. I had to be escorted everywhere and when I was working on a system, I was stuck in a cube with high walls all around me except for the entrance to the cube. No one in this company was tricked about PGP whether they knew about the back door or not. Feigned ignorance wouldn't surprise me in the least. Most of the people I worked with at Raytheon (I was usually there about an hour on each trip) were contracted IT. They didn't work for Raytheon in so much as Raytheon hired a company that worked in the same general area as Raytheon (note: a very large campus with the contractor cubes in the middle of the engineer cubes in most areas). When I needed access, they took the laptop away, did what they had to do, and came back with a login prompt, which I couldn't get past because the engineer needed to sign in. I never was allowed to get very deep into a Raytheon laptop, mainly because of the security and the fact that they didn't have the engineer's user/pass.
Indeed. I was in no way saying that they "didn't" know how, but that perhaps they did not wish to reveal the secret to a screwdriver jockey. However, they also were a little clueless about it, but whether that was acting or just plain ignorance, we'll never know.
It was field support. We needed to change the serial number of the motherboard IN the os using a cd, since it can't be done on HP laptop's in the BIOS (desktops yes, laptops no). This was doing warranty repairwork for Barrister, which handled the HP warranty repair work. We weren't allowed to do "software" only hardware. The limit of our "software" use was to tattoo the old serial number on the new motherboard and make sure things that needed to work, worked.
Having replaced laptop motherboards for Raytheon that had the pgp whole disk encryption and asking them if there was a way around it to check the os and their response being there is no way around it, I wonder "who" the unnamed customer was?
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HP is still having capacitor issues. Mainly from heat, but I believe that formula was still being used for quite awhile.
No, from what I saw, they are using the standard business class HP nc6000 series and a few nx9000 series. The encryption was in fact PGP full disk encryption, but I'm fairly certain it came from HP that way. I saw enough of the login screens when I was there that I can be near certain (no cameras allowed, so no proof in that form) that it was PGP full disk.
Do you know what Raytheon is? They don't have tricked home users. Most of the people in the company are overpaid engineers designing defense "things" that are usually top secret classified. They had a warranty repair deal with HP that any hardware issues we had to come out within about four hours of getting the part and fixing the problem. I had to be escorted everywhere and when I was working on a system, I was stuck in a cube with high walls all around me except for the entrance to the cube. No one in this company was tricked about PGP whether they knew about the back door or not. Feigned ignorance wouldn't surprise me in the least. Most of the people I worked with at Raytheon (I was usually there about an hour on each trip) were contracted IT. They didn't work for Raytheon in so much as Raytheon hired a company that worked in the same general area as Raytheon (note: a very large campus with the contractor cubes in the middle of the engineer cubes in most areas). When I needed access, they took the laptop away, did what they had to do, and came back with a login prompt, which I couldn't get past because the engineer needed to sign in. I never was allowed to get very deep into a Raytheon laptop, mainly because of the security and the fact that they didn't have the engineer's user/pass.
Indeed. I was in no way saying that they "didn't" know how, but that perhaps they did not wish to reveal the secret to a screwdriver jockey. However, they also were a little clueless about it, but whether that was acting or just plain ignorance, we'll never know.
It was field support. We needed to change the serial number of the motherboard IN the os using a cd, since it can't be done on HP laptop's in the BIOS (desktops yes, laptops no). This was doing warranty repairwork for Barrister, which handled the HP warranty repair work. We weren't allowed to do "software" only hardware. The limit of our "software" use was to tattoo the old serial number on the new motherboard and make sure things that needed to work, worked.
Having replaced laptop motherboards for Raytheon that had the pgp whole disk encryption and asking them if there was a way around it to check the os and their response being there is no way around it, I wonder "who" the unnamed customer was?
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