-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 17 February 2003 11:36, Nathanael Noblet wrote: > On Monday, February 17, 2003, at 11:09 AM, Johnny Stork wrote: > > WOW!!!! But nothing really surprising I guess...just an addendum to my > > long list of why my use of Windows OS's ended with Win2k > > http://www.briansbuzz.com/w/030213/ > > Um correct me if I am wrong, but if you have physical access to a linux > machine, you also have the ability to gain access to everything on the > machine, bootable cd into single usermode... ??
or simply boot into a floppy or CD Linux distro (e.g. knoppix, tom's root boot) and mount the partitions. the only real protection against this is encrypted filesystems. > Unless of course you > have a password on the bios setting so that someone can't change the > boot order, AND a password on LILO and/or GRUB. and even then they can just pull the hard drive if they're really motivated. > So I wonder where the big difference is? it seems like it actually allows you to run as a privileged user rather than simply circumvent user control altogether. if this is true, then it may render even encrypted fs useless. but the "security pros" he spoke to are largely right: physical access means the game is largely over. hmmm.. .what did this have to do with Linux again? - -- Aaron J. Seigo GPG Fingerprint: 8B8B 2209 0C6F 7C47 B1EA EE75 D6B7 2EB1 A7F1 DB43 KDE: The 'K' is for 'kick ass' http://www.kde.org http://promo.kde.org/3.1/feature_guide.php -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+US4z1rcusafx20MRAjWnAKCd+2C2prQP7mWcLwdSzye4sJauvACeM3Pn 0b9svaGBmfcofvZmCvhm5+U= =U78o -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
