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 -- Alan McKinnon alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
