From: "Gorka guardiola" <paurea@gmail.com>
To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] Best installation for a standalone desktop
Date: Thu, 3 Aug 2006 11:25:37 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <599f06db0608030925y2931850ds4fcde1d6bab85c64@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <44D20A95.3000505@asgaard.homelinux.org>
On 8/3/06, "Nils O. Selåsdal" <noselasd@asgaard.homelinux.org> wrote:
> Gorka guardiola wrote:
> Or provide a bios password if your box has such a thing.
> "security" on desktop computers are often false security - with a
> password protected login someone can boot another alternative OS
> and access data at the drives anyway - not to mention steal the
> harddrive.
>
>
Or use a big stick to smash it. This is the "big stick principle".
http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~fms27/papers/2006-JohnsonSta-guests.pdf
lock is just something to use against curiosity
in your office when you go to the bathroom and for
that use it is sufficient.
--
- curiosity sKilled the cat
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-08-03 16:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-08-03 7:33 csant
2006-08-03 14:08 ` Gorka guardiola
2006-08-03 14:39 ` "Nils O. Selåsdal"
2006-08-03 16:25 ` Gorka guardiola [this message]
2006-08-03 20:50 ` [9fans] Plan9 on Microsoft Virtual PC 2004 Drew Hohmann
2006-08-03 22:53 ` John Floren
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