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On Tuesday 25 March 2008, Dirk Heinrichs wrote: |
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> Am Dienstag, 25. März 2008 schrieb ext Alan McKinnon: |
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> > On a notebook, there isn't an OS in existence that is immune to a |
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> > LiveCD. |
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> Linux is. In the sense that you can't get at the data if the disc is |
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> encrypted, even not with a LiveCD. You can only destroy/overwrite it. |
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Yes, I realised that when typing the original, but left it as is - too |
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many IF conditionals would be needed to be accurate and English is |
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almost useless at getting IFs to parse correctly :-) |
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Passwords come from a time when users had terminals that log onto |
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machines that are somewhere else and the user can't lay a finger on |
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them. Things have indeed changed since 1978 |
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Alan McKinnon |
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alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com |
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