Rootkit on a Brand new Toshiba laptop

Re:Rootkit on a Brand new Toshiba laptop by jitbit on Saturday April 30, 2011 @09:05AM (#2500544)

Yeah, correct. But what if some Absolute's employee turns out to be dishonest? A non-removable process, not detected by most antiviruses, that listens to the commands from the Net... Seems like a botnet to me.

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Re:Rootkit on a Brand new Toshiba laptop by Duff on Saturday April 30, 2011 @10:57AM (#2500738)

When we asked this question in the context of the laptops at the big enterprise that I worked for, the response from Absolute was "most of our employees are ex-cops, so that isn't a problem".

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Re:Rootkit on a Brand new Toshiba laptop by natch on Saturday April 30, 2011 @05:04PM (#2501570)

Wow. Even setting aside the question of whether all cops are trustworthy, one does wonder why they are "ex" cops.

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