Physical+Threats







Description- Physical threats are always potential for example wherever you are there is always the potential for you to drop your laptop damaging it beyond repair or simply spilling a lass of liquid over your work, meaning it can not be used again. You've heard of the spy tales where lists of spy's real names are stolen, this could in fact happen in real life loosing valuable information and could in reality put people's lives in danger. Physical threats are everyday mistakes which could be more serious that is initially was.

Examples- A major laptop theft is when the Israeli head of Nuclear programs. He has had his laptop stolen twice. thankfully the AEC says that there is no sensitive information on the laptop but you can see the dangers that are possible from laptop theft. Nasa have in the past made lots of mistakes including the time when they had a laptop stolen but there incription was easy to crack information was taken, by people who shouldn't have been anywhere near the information. Prevention- You can help recover your laptop with Prey, Prey has many useful features including you can take a photo of the user if you laptop has been stolen you can get a photo of the user. Also it uses GPS from the closest wifi source. Also you can take a screen shot of what they are doing on your computer. Prey is a very useful tool and takes up none of the computer usage. Also it is invisible on the computer once you have down loaded it.