From: Sean McGrath (sean at domain hdl.ie)
Date: Tue 25 May 1999 - 15:17:41 IST
kevin lyda wrote:
>
> Sean McGrath burst across the net:
> >Diarmaid O'Loughlin wrote:
> >> On LILO's boot: prompt if you type 'linux single' (I think, I saw it in a
> >> book anyway) You start linin in single user mode! As root! How can you
> >> stop this! Is's a tiny bit of a security problem me thinks.
> > lilo can also have a password.
> > bios password.
>
> sean's solution works, but what does it solve? if i have physical
> access to a machine i have full access to the data: floppy or
> screwdriver. i also have a good chance of getting on the network:
> laptop + above methods.
>
> full security involves physical security.
put the box in a lead lined cell (no windows), reenforced concrete
walls, say 5m thick.
the room is accessed about 20m below ground. No network connections,
no floppy, no cdrom, i.e.
no removable media. it doesn't have com ports, printer ports or usb
ports. take the mouse away while
your at it (and the ps/2 connection).
thats security.
>
> kevin
>
Sean.
.
ps. no power supply for the paranoid 8)
pps. the room is in, say, the Antartica.
ppps. there is no 'real' security, only the paranoid survive.
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