On Mon, 28 Feb 2011 01:19:15 +0100 (CET), [email protected] wrote: > But given a physical access to the machine, you can reconfigure the BIOS. > A > BIOS password makes it harder (you need a screwdriver) but not impossible. > > And the problem is the same whatever the OS. There is no real security > unless > you lock the computer (no physical access) or unless you encrypt the disk.
At the begging of the topic you asked why there was no recovery mode on Trisquel. I would like to ask, why would you want recovery mode if it would be so much easier to breake the security that doesn't envolve screwdrivers? Recovery mode will always need the use of root user, right? -- Luis A. Guzmán García http://ark.switnet.org ¡Se Libre! -- http://fsfla.org/selibre/ The Hardware Database Project -- http://www.h-node.com
