Hi all,
I don't think you'll convince me this is anything but a disaster. I don't
think turning my linux passwords into the equivalent of Win 95, not even Nt,
passwords to be anything but bad.
The comment about the janitor was good, and that gets right to the heart of
it. I do not expect the janitor to know enough or be interested enough to
dismantle the beast and pull out the hd to read on another machine. I do
expect something as trivally worked around as root password in a few steps
to be something well with in most peoples reach and motivation level.
I just went to a friend's house a few weeks ago and put win2000, bios
passwords, no boot but from hd, so they can stop their teen sons from
downloading porn. These children know a bit, but not enough to work around
that.
No one is trying to protect from the nsa here. Anyone with sufficient time,
motivation, and skill will find a way in, same as to your home. What has
been done is to make root access available for anyone with a few minutes and
a bit of luck on a web search.
In idiot proofing the system it has been comprimised to idiots.
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