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On Sun, Apr 16, 2006 at 09:54:33PM +1000, Penguin Lover Alan E. Davis squawked: |
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> He felt betrayed. I understand why, I think: what's secure about |
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> GNU/Linux if anyone can boot the system and reset his passwords? |
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That is the same regardless of operating system. |
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Physical access == no security. |
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> How can anyone easily avoid the problem of anyone being able to access |
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> the guts of his machine using a live CD? I already thought of one: |
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> use the BIOS to disallow booting from a CD or Floppy, and set a |
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> password on the BIOS. Don't know whether all BIOSes will allow this, |
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> and anyway, isn't it possible on a lot of motherboards to short out |
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> the EPROM and thus reset the password of the BIOS? |
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You can also encrypt the contents of your hard drive. |
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http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Disk-Encryption-HOWTO/ |
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Q: What's an anagram of "Banach-Tarski" ? |
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A: "Banach-Tarski Banach-Tarski" |
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Sortir en Pantoufles: up 155 days, 4:42 |
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