From: Gadi Evron (ge@linuxbox.org)
Date: Tue Jun 01 2004 - 13:19:45 EDT
Steven A. Fletcher wrote:
> Recently, I heard someone mention and interesting way to get people to
> insert such a CD. He said that he would leave a CD lying around in the
> bathroom that was labeled something like "Quarter 4 Raises" or "Quarter
> 4 Layoffs". Of course, this tempted people and someone would eventually
> pick up the CD and put it in their computer.
>
> In some ways, I'm sort of disappointed to hear that locking the screen
> prevents autorun from happening. That would have been an interesting
> way to show people just how insecure their computers really are. :)
>
> Steve
A very old boss of mine tried the same thing, only with floppies. He
made call-home floppies and left them lying around in weird places.
Every single one of the floppies were inserted and the executable was
run (if memory serves).
Gadi Evron.
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