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to: SCOTT MCNAY
from: ARNOUD BAKKER
date: 1997-12-18 17:09:00
subject: Code in Boot Sector

Scott McNay wrote in a message to Dalin Owen:
DO> I can _fully_ lock out my system with a BIOS password!
DO> Except that doesn't stop someone from pulling the battery..
 SM> You're not going to be able to defend against someone who truly
 SM> knows what he's (she's) doing and who is truly determined to get
 SM> in.
Right enough..
 SM> Someone could just pull the hard drive out and put it on another
 SM> computer, therefore, to be properly paranoid, you'd need the entire
 SM> hard drive encrypted.  You're begging for trouble when you start
 SM> thinking along those lines. 
Just encrypting the MBR will do the trick (user on other disk can't read your 
partitions then)
 SM> in a secure area; I had to show my ID and a copy of the work order,
 SM> and sign a sign-in sheet in order to get in to work on the
 SM> computer.  They would turn on flashing lights so that everyone in
 SM> the place knew that guests were present who did not have proper
 SM> security clearance.
WOw... were was that?
Met vriendelijke groeten,
Arnoud Bakker 
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