On Fri, Feb 11, 2005 at 01:42:52PM -0800, Brian Mury wrote: > > As soon you have any kind of connection and/or physical situation, where > > other people could come in touch with this system, I think strong > > passwords and so on are necessary. > If people have physical access to the box, no password is going to > protect it. That's not strictly true. Actually opening the box and setting jumpers or swapping hardware is a higher bar than just sitting down and the system and having access. It's much more likely to be noticed, for example -- especially if you have a security lock on the case and it actually involves, y'know, hacksaws. -- Matthew Miller mattdm@xxxxxxxxxx <http://www.mattdm.org/> --> Fedora Users & Developers Conference, hosted by Boston University <-- February 18th, 2005 <http://fedoraproject.org/fudcon/>
