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Re: rootkit and 10 minutes ?

On Wed, Oct 02, 2002 at 06:53:29PM +0200, 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.  Can I assume that this is still true in every distro?
> 
> Is no one concerned about this problem?  Is this an inherent weakness
> of Linux that can not be corrected?

    Do you know of a computer system that cannot be rooted if they have physical
possession?


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