On Thu, 2008-06-26 at 13:11 +0300, Dotan Cohen wrote: > 2008/6/26 Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net>: > >> I do not think that they can crack root without my 8 character > >> upper/lower/number password. Can they? How would having my own account > >> help? > > > > http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/jun/16/nuclear.pakistan > > http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/15/world/asia/15nuke.html > > > > - From these articles, I infer that the Swiss secret intelligence > > service cracked encrypted files in 1-3 years. Maybe they had help > > from the NSA? Maybe it was weak encryption? Maybe the Swiss > > decrypters are very good? > > > > That's fine. To even get to the encrypted files they will need to > crack the password on the machine. Or pull the drive and put it in their own machine. Unless we're talking LUKS password... -- Paul Johnson baloo@ursine.ca
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