Re: faq8.html#LostPW

2012/6/24 rustyBSD <[email protected]>:
> Le 24/06/2012 07:59, Nick Holland a écrit :
>> On 06/23/12 17:43, rustyBSD wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>> "If an attacker has physical access to your system, they win, regardless
>>> of the OS on the computer."
>>> NO. Some Linux distribs can have a full disk encryption.
>> If an attacker has physical access to your system, they win.  If you
>> don't believe me, let me at your computer for a while, preferably while
>> you aren't aware I'm there.   Hint: the bad guys don't attack you in the
>> way you hope, they attack in the way that works.

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> That's what you're telling me.
>
> Sure, our data are NEVER totally secure, but they can be
> more secure than in the past. It's as if you were telling me
> that firewall are useless because of the fact that a KGB spy
> could get physical access to your machine.

The text you're debating equals "If you have a firewall, and the
attacker is behind it also, you lose that protection". So, having a
firewall is not worthless, but if the bad people is at the wrong end
of it, it stops being useful. Same goes for physical access. If bad
guys get it, you lose.

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