Your login password does not encrypt your data, and anyone with an administrator password or indeed an alternative way of booting can access it quite easily. You can always encrypt the data, by creating an encrypted partition for instance. I like to use Truecrypt on my dual-boot work laptop because it's available on both Linux and Windows, so I can have an encrypted partition accessible from both OSes.
On 14/09/2007, Graham Petley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi there, > > I watched the Inspector Lyndsey mystery last night. At one point the > sleuths > were in front of a Windows PC needing to login and view the owner's photo > collection. Luckily Inspector Lyndsey could guess the login password, > otherwise > the police nerd would have had to take the PC down to the lab for a long > session with some special software. > > I too keep my photo collection on the Windows partition of my laptop. > It too > needs a password to gain access, which hopefully Inspector Lyndsey would > not be > able to guess. But if I boot it up with the Ubuntu Feisty Fawn Live CD, I > only > have to double click on the Windows volume shown under Computer and I gain > access without having to know any password. > > In fact, any volume, NTFS, Ext3 or Reiserfs is accessible this way. Are > our > systems really so insecure, or is something wrong with my setup? Looks > like > Inspector Lyndsey should never leave his Linux Live CD at home when he > goes out > sleuthing! > > -Graham Petley > _______________________________________________ > MLUG-list mailing list > [email protected] > http://mailserv.megabyte.net/mailman/listinfo/mlug-list > -- Ramon Casha
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