Re: Does Security matter at all?
>>>>> "Remco" == Remco Blaakmeer <remco-blaakmeer@quicknet.nl> writes:
Remco> Please also consider the case where people have limited,
Remco> supervised physical access to a computer. They can change
Remco> disks, pull the power plug and press the reset button, but
Remco> they won't be able to open a computer case without drawing
Remco> attention. This is a fairly common situation in schools and
Remco> universities, where students have to be able to save their
Remco> own documents on a floppy disk or work on documents that
Remco> have been previously stored on a floppy disk, and even in
Remco> people's homes.
As was said somewhere else (maybe even in this mailing list):
1. rebooting a computer *could* cause suspicion in itself. All you need
is some autoping system that regularly pings the computer (might not
be scalable for large networks). In any-case, it is difficult to hide
a reboot, as uptime will always show it.
2. if the BIOS is password protected, opening up the computer case in
front of a security camera is potentially very unsafe...
3. Then again, it depends what you are trying to protect, and what
insecure protocols are being used. Would anyone notice if I set up my
laptop computer next to a public Unix system, plugged it into the
network instead, and mounted a "secure" NFS filesystem?
--
Brian May <bam@debian.org>
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