Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (710 mails)

[Greg Freemyer <greg.freemyer@xxxxxxxxx>]

fyi only - related to legal issues:

IANAL, but I've been told that in the USA if a family computer has no
password, then there is no right to privacy.

If the computer does have a password, then there is. (At least as
regards adults.  Children don't have a right to privacy from their
parents.).

So while the password may not offer much if any technical security, it
establishes legal security by making it a crime for another family
member to bypass it.

Note that in the US most corporations have a legal disclaimer that
states they own all the data and the user has no right to privacy.
Thus a corporate IT person or investigator is within their legal
rights to ignore the presence of a password.

I am NOT saying this argues one way or the other for the default, but
I wanted to highlight that having a password is more than just a weak
security issue.

Greg
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