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Laptops with Stickers

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601 points z303 | 1 comments | 02 Nov 25 11:58 UTC | HN request time: 0.217s | source
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WaitWaitWha ◴[12 Nov 25 00:20 UTC] No.45894775[source]▶
Some pen test teams use laptop stickers as an excellent resource for proper social engineering.

Some cyber companies explicitly prohibit stickers on company laptops.

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0xDEAFBEAD ◴[12 Nov 25 06:57 UTC] No.45897117[source]▶
>Some pen test teams use laptop stickers as an excellent resource for proper social engineering.

How?

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1. rsynnott ◴[12 Nov 25 11:53 UTC] No.45899031[source]▶
Well, the _corporate_ stickers are a major giveaway, of course; if you have 15 AWS-related stickers it is highly likely that you work at Amazon, say, and it may not necessarily be wise to make it clear that your laptop is an Amazon corporate laptop, in public.

Beyond that, you could _maybe_ use it to identify a person's interests for social engineering purposes, but that feels a lot more tenuous.