From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2005 22:01:52 -0700 From: "Ronald G. Minnich" To: Russ Cox , Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Subject: Re: [9fans] writing code In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Cc: Topicbox-Message-UUID: 4ba76102-eace-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 On Thu, 17 Feb 2005, Russ Cox wrote: > [answer 1] > i think it's realistic. a boot cd would get you the same access. > if you get physical machine access, you win. typing a password > to authenticate to the local system gives you the feeling of > security, not actual security. yes, if I get physical acccess, I win. I'll just tear the thing to bits and boot it with an ICE :-) I don't even care if I mark up the pretty plastic. And if you get access, you'll probably hit the jackpot much more than I will, and you probably won't even need to use a screwdriver. But if most schmoozes get physical access, they don't win. Most criminals being stupid schmoozes, I'm ok with protecting against them and not against the KGB. Everybody who has a null root password, based on the physical access argument, raise their hand. I don't buy this argument. > [answer 2] > you could just run the screen locker that rob wrote in termrc. makes sense to me. So why don't we do it? ron