On Tuesday 25 March 2008, Dirk Heinrichs wrote:
> Am Dienstag, 25. März 2008 schrieb ext Alan McKinnon:
> > On a notebook, there isn't an OS in existence that is immune to a
> > LiveCD.
>
> Linux is. In the sense that you can't get at the data if the disc is
> encrypted, even not with a LiveCD. You can only destroy/overwrite it.

Yes, I realised that when typing the original, but left it as is - too
many IF conditionals would be needed to be accurate and English is
almost useless at getting IFs to parse correctly :-)

Passwords come from a time when users had terminals that log onto
machines that are somewhere else and the user can't lay a finger on
them. Things have indeed changed since 1978


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