On Tue, 5 Oct 1999, Jackal wrote:
> I recently purchased my laptop and the issue of securing your data on the
> laptop came to my mind.
>
> I thought up of a few measures to make accessing the data on my laptop more
> difficult if it was stolen (which i hope will not happen). However, I am
> quite sure that there are holes which i did not consider and I just thought of
> throwing this issue out for anybody who might have comments.
>
> 1. I set the boot sequence to the harddisk then the floppy and cd-rom
> 2. I password protected the bios setup so that changes to the boot sequence
> requires a calid password.
> 3. I set the lilo to be password protected so that linux single will not work
> wthout a valid password.
>
> Anyone has any comments on how someone who steal my laptop can access the data
> inside after I have done the three measures?
Many bios's have a backdoor passwd(s). Even if yours doesn't, many
systems have some method for clearing the CMOS. Even if yours doesn't,
most laptops use standard 2.5" drives, and many are easily removeable.
The drive can relatively easily be fitted with an adaptor and put in a PC,
at which point it can be mounted and gone through.
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