On Fri, Aug 7, 2009 at 9:39 AM, Ethan Grammatikidis<eeke...@fastmail.fm> wrote:
> On Fri, 7 Aug 2009 09:29:25 -0300
> Iruata Souza <iru.mu...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On Fri, Aug 7, 2009 at 9:05 AM, Ethan Grammatikidis<eeke...@fastmail.fm> 
>> wrote:
>> > On Thu, 6 Aug 2009 11:33:18 +0100
>> > "Steve Simon" <st...@quintile.net> wrote:
>> >
>> >> I cannot imageine the senario where random people will have access
>> >> to the cpu/auth/file server's consoles. It just doesn't happen
>> >> if you are serious about security.
>> >>
>> >> However if you want to protect your console against your friends
>> >> I wrote a script to do it /n/sources/contrib/steve/rc/conslock
>> >> you may also want to look at screenlock(1)
>> >>
>> >> Incidentially I may use this at home to protect my servers console
>> >> against my 2 year old who rather likes keyboards, though this is
>> >> a different type of security.
>> >>
>> >> -Steve
>> >>
>> >
>> > Speaking of family, I'd imagine a little password protection might go a 
>> > long way to keeping > the peace in many families. Respect for siblings' 
>> > property isn't exactly hard-wired into
>> > human nature, is it?
>>
>> no password protection will suffice when ethics fails.
>
> ETHICS? In a SEVEN YEAR OLD who knows what rm does????? What the fuck planet 
> are you from? Don't get me started on my teenage years.
>

having respect for the shared (or private if you wish) stuff is
ethical. if only prohibition is applied, no password protection will
work.

a seven year old in anger can surely set fire on the computer or
whatnot if ethics fails him.

iru

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