From: "Antti Kurenniemi" 

Not me. Get physical access to a computer and it's yours. There are
separate products for encrypting the contents of a disk (or parts of it)
which you can use - which probably should be used if you have a laptop full
of highly sensitive stuff.

This can also come in handy: next time someone forgets their password, you
can rescue them by simply plugging the hd into another system. I've done it
many times, and I always get a "how did you do that?" - and I
always tell them "it's magic" :-)   I live for those moments...


Antti Kurenniemi

"Ellen K." 
wrote in message news:f2p320de5mcb7kn3jic0ea0646vbsgiutk{at}4ax.com...
> Does anybody besides me think that's horrible?
>
> On Wed, 4 Feb 2004 21:51:22 -0500, "Geo."
 wrote in
> message :
>
> >you can do that with ntfsDOS on a boot floppy.
> >
> >Geo.
> >
> >"Ellen K."
 wrote in message
> >news:cl0220tqt5pcd5ent1ch5eh9pvmebno3t4{at}4ax.com...
> >> from this week's Cringely email newsletter:
> >>
> >> >> The Sun Also Surprises: Sun calls its Java Desktop
System "the first
> >> viable Microsoft Windows alternative," but it's
apparently much more
> >> than that. One Cringe crew member trying out Sun's bootable JDS
> >> evaluation disc made an intriguing discovery: You can insert the
> >> Linux-based disc into any NTFS (NT file system), boot up, and bypass
> >> Windows security to gain access to all the files on the hard drive
> >> (kids, please don't try this at home). It's an open source OS and an
> >> anti-Microsoft hacking tool all in one -- what more could a geek want?
> >> <<
> >
>

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