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From: wcs@erebus.att.com (William Clare Stewart)
Newsgroups: misc.security
Subject: Re: Physical security of terminals
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Date: 14 Nov 90 05:00:55 GMT
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David Harrison asks for suggestions about keeping X terminals from
being stolen in a physically non-secure environment, such as pinging
the terminal every few minutes.  This won't work if people turn the
terminals off, or do other things that confuse the terminal too much
to answer pings, and won't work at all if there are any workstations
on the net that could be convinced to forge replies.

I don't have any POSITIVE suggestions, beyond social engineering and
maybe a video camera that's VERY obvious.  Model 029 keypunches were
a lot easier to secure - they were too big to move without major
inconvenience.
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					Thanks; Bill
# Bill Stewart 908-949-0705 erebus.att.com!wcs AT&T Bell Labs 4M-312 Holmdel NJ