15 Sep
2009
15 Sep
'09
11:06 a.m.
On Tue, Sep 08, 2009 at 01:13:02AM +0100, Wayne Stallwood wrote:
In my experience once someone with malicious intent has physical access to the hardware regardless of platform or OS all bets are off regarding security.
Exactly what I was going to say. Apart from anything else they can walk away with the machine under their arm! :-)
Even without taking the machine away it's pretty trivial to boot from a CD (or memory stick, or floppy even) that they've brought with them and get to single user/root.
If the *data* is really confidential then lock the machine up and encrypt the filesystem.
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Chris Green