>From: Renjith Ravindran <[email protected]> >To: "This List discusses GNU/Linux & GNU, GPL Software" ><[email protected]> >Sent: Friday, 1 July 2011 10:06 PM >Subject: Re: [ILUG-Cochin.org] Reset password.. > > >i suppose 'security' as provided by any OS can be only applied to security >when in a network. ie when users are connected to each other only logically >and not physically. No OS can protect your data if a Bad Guy gets physical >access to your computer, for get bios password and partition encryption , he >could just pull out your hard-disk and burn it! >
Renjith, I disagree with you. Why would bad guys reach for your system if all they want is to burn your HDD? You may read the below link as to how the bad guys take great pain to reach into somebody's HDD for the data stored within -- EVEN with them having total physical access. The height of computer security: http://insecure.org/stc/sti.html -- An excerpt from Stealing the Network: How to Own an Identity. The chapter is about Bl@ckTo\/\/3r. You can read to what extent he goes to "physically" secure his system. Its a long read, so better keep it for weekends. As a side note, this was the single source of inspiration for me to switch to Dvorak keyboard. Viva la Dvorak, Mahesh Aravind _______________________________________________ Indian Libre User Group Cochin Mailing List http://www.ilug-cochin.org/mailing-list/ http://mail.ilug-cochin.org/mailman/listinfo/mailinglist_ilug-cochin.org #[email protected]
