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Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2005 20:27:04 -0500
From: Russ Cox <russcox@gmail.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] writing code
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> a plan 9 laptop is about as secure as dos 1.0
>
> I mean, turn it on, pick a random user name which is likely to work, and
> you're in with no password or anything. Am I the only one who thinks this
> is not so terrific?

[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.

[answer 2]
you could just run the screen locker that rob wrote in termrc.

[answer 3]
plan 9 is intended to be used as a networked system.  laptops
are second-class citizens.

russ