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I had a professor once ask about the strip of duct tape across the back of my brand new laptop. "Well, thieves cannot pawn electronics with cracked cases. So all my laptops have at least some tape so they think it may be cracked." The next lecture, the prof had a strip of masking tape on his laptop too.

But slap a tux logo and an "i l9ve truecrypt" banner on you device and nobody short of the NSA would even attempt a maid attack.

by gruez5 days ago|

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>Well, thieves cannot pawn electronics with cracked cases

Can't, or they'll get less money? I'm also not sure if I ever saw a laptop with a cracked case before, not to mention macbooks are the most recognizable and can't have cracked cases (because they're aluminum), and other laptops aren't worth stealing because their value drops sharply.

>But slap a tux logo and an "i l9ve truecrypt" banner on you device and nobody short of the NSA would even attempt a maid attack.

truecrypt is actually very susceptible to evil maid attacks because it doesn't use secureboot/tpm, which means all a baddie has to do is installed a backdoored version of truecrypt and wait for you to enter the password.

by sandworm1015 days ago|

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The stickers are just a statement that the owner is privacy aware. And, physically, stickers are hard to replicate quickly, preventing simple swapping of hardware. A clean iPad that looks brand new is indistinguishable from any other ipad that the maid can swap in.