Re: Mutt & tmp files -- Root is not my Enemy
Florian Bantner (f.bantner@axon-e.de) wrote:
> A fact about which I'm concerned
> even more than about a hack from outside via the internet etc. is
> real physical access to the box. Something hackers normaly don't pay
> enough attention is that just somebody steps - let's say 6 o'clock
> in the morning - into your room, shows you his police card - or what ever
> govermental id card - and tells you that your computer is now his.
Use TMPFS. Encrypt your disk or do everything in
RAM (maybe set up a diskless system booting from
cd. See the bootcd-package). They might still be
bugging your hardware.
> You have to experience that for yourself to believe how easy this
> could happen. Just be in the wrong place to the wrong time.
> It happend to me once, just because I lived that time in a
> flat-sharing community. I didn't see my computers for about a year
> and then all harddisk had been removed and where broken.
Did they replace the damage?
- Rolf
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