Re: rootkit and 10 minutes ?

[pplf <pplf@wanadoo.fr>]

Earl wrote:
> I have heard that physical possession of a Linux computer allows
> anyone to take over as root, etc.  It seems to me that this is a huge
> security hole.

All OS contain this "security hole" : this is why servers are physically 
locked in the computers building ;-)

You can put a password in the BIOS, but if the attacker can access 
physically and in secret to your computer, he can take off the hard disk 
and install it in another laptop, etc. etc.

Remember : cryptography cannot do anything.

The only thing is that cryptography is more usefull into the *real* OSes 
like Unixes, than in the OSes from the Windows family.


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