-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Samuel Toogood wrote: > ------- Original message ------- >> From: Jon Reynolds <maill...@jcrdevelopments.com> >> To: ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com >> Sent: 24.10.'09, 10:50 >> >> Am I thinking about this wrong or is it true that using a live CD, one >> can just boot into the live environment and then mount the host >> computer's hard drive and browse its contents. Isn't that a really bad >> security issue? >> >> Jon Reynolds >> > No that's perfectly correct. It's one of the reasons Ubuntu offers home > directory encryption. > > Sam > I think this has been said before once you have physical access to a computer it is vulnerable, however if you disable boot from cdrom, as a bios option, and probably from usb as well. Password protect the bios then you do add some sort of security,
of course if its a server then you would probably want to remove the cd drice anyway, (however that seems a little extreme), is home directory encryption available in 8.10 or later editions ? Paul - -- Paul Sutton www.zleap.net Ubuntu 9.10 out 29th October 2009 - www.ubuntu.com -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkri3pIACgkQaggq1k2FJq2llgCgk04Q1gFJkzohWMciNdl72iin IIwAn1y2wdtBebIIIcjGF0zYL2vqISfE =AHUz -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
