Suppose I have a confidential word file people are looking to steal from me.
Lets list various ways it can go out from my laptop if someone is using my laptop, how can he steal it?
Ill start:
by copying it in a USB drive.
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Assuming the word file isn’t encrypted?
Via bluetooth
By emailing the file to himself
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Just stream it man 
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sharing over network (if any connected)
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If it is confidential file why is it not password protected ?
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^ Because men are like so inept at technology
Restored attachments:
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FTP upload ..
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Maybe because Microsoft office password protection is just superb! 
Keep em coming guys.
Print Screen.
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yeh file isnt encrypted because in this scenariom I am a common user and not too savvy with encryption tools.
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A trojan horse - for example the person using your laptop may download an innocent looking exe (for a game, screensaver) which is a trojan - it will surreptitiously copy the word doc to another location which this person can later access
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Saby is actually seeking ideas to steal somebodys file from their laptop 
. DO NOT give him any more of these dirty ideas
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^ LOL, Saby is the last one who needs ideas..hes an IT geek
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if its networked, a zillion and one ways.
else, snapshots with phone cam page by page.
if no phone cam, xerox the laptop screen page by page
oh and mm.. disguise/embed it after running it thru suitable conditioning into an image or pdf or some other harmless sounding file, and have you email me that file later. thanks pal.
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Oye Bond, 1970’s called. They want their micro-camera back 
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^ LOL
queer: Assume its networked of course. List some of those zillion ways. Should be interesting! 
LucyMay: Interesting idea but if an AV is installed, it may not work.
Zareen: I have enough ideas of my own. I am just doing some research 
cdg: Dont call me a geek! 
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good luck with your assignment
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If i wanted to steal something I’d put a little trojan in ur computer so I don’t have to be at your computer. My little “helper” will keep finding the right files and send it to me at heart’s desire. Maybe even build in remote access functionality in it while I’m at it.
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^you mean a trojan not detectable by common anti-virus?? since an anti-virus is in place …i think..
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AV doesn’t detect everything. How else would you account for all the infections that take over the computers even with AV installed? AV is just to keep out the “honest” trojan out. Just like we put locks on our front doors and think “all is well”.
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But a good and quality AV will perform a behavioral analysis of the processes running and can detect an unwanted one.
But okay, I will mark that as one very plausible way.