Comments inline.
On Tuesday 23 January 2007 9:03 am, James Knott wrote:
> TerryJ wrote:
> > Getting off topic, I've belatedly woken up to a major hole in the
> > "security" about which I'd been smug.
> >
> > On the Linux OSs I've used, you need a password by default to log
> > in. You can drive a truck through that with a live cd. The one
> > I've got let's you log in as administrator (Linux = root) and
> > have your evil way with anything and everything on the hard
> > drive.
Please specify the live CD that you used to do this. I have a
live CD of one distribution that will not even recognize the Linux
partition on the computer at all, and the partition is the same
distribution as the live CD.
>
> Security involves physical security. If someone has physical
> access, they can do almost anything they want
>
> > I'd use top quality software to encrypt a file with some
> > confidence but OpenOffice is not in that category. The password
> > might be secure (although there's a password cracker on
> > www.ooomacros.org) but the encrypting can, it seems, go awry.
Please explain what you mean by the encryption going awry. On
what basis have you decided that OOo is not in the category of a top
quality encryption?
I am skeptical of your claims because I do not know what your
background is. These claims may be true or they might not be. But
without collaboration by others, there is no way to tell.
Dan
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