Re: Linux, BSD, and Unix are fundamentally insecure.

From: Dave Uhring (daveuhring_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 09/11/04

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    On Fri, 10 Sep 2004 20:45:49 -0700, Dariusz Kuli?ski / TaKeDa wrote:

    > I don't know what do you mean by console, (I guess like most people you
    > assuming that access to console is equal with sitting next to the
    > computer).

    I thought it pretty damn obvious since I mentioned booting from CDROM.

    > Well that's not always true. For example I have my FreeBSD configured to
    > have console on serial cable, so console could be even in different room.
    > If I mark console as insecure, there is no way you could do anything
    > without knowing root password, because you don't have physical access to
    > the computer, you just have access to console, no way to change bios
    > settings or inserting floppy, cdrom or removing hard drive.

    And if I can boot that system from CDROM none of your security settings
    mean a thing nor does the root password.

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