Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3225 mails)

["Paul Miles" <paul.miles@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I don't particually want to get dragged into this largely pointless flame
war except to say :

Why bother with the hassel of a boot disk, if u have physical console access
to the machine, just boot it to runlevel 1 thereby booting to a root prompt.

That way, presumably you'd have the approphiate encryption keys, so you'd be
able to read the disk, and before anyone asks, I personally have done this
several times in SuSE various versions, Redhat 7.2, and Debian.

Kind regards,

Paul Miles

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----- Original Message -----
From: "Anders Johansson" <andjoh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <suse-linux-e@xxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, July 13, 2002 8:48 AM
Subject: Re: [SLE] Re: security hole?


> On Saturday 13 July 2002 17.37, zentara wrote:
> > Then you need to compile
> > all your apps from source code, with a bunch of geeks scrutinizing
> > all the code for holes.  You probably also need to rip apart a few
> > of the processors to make sure that no "secret registers exist in it".
>
> Don't forget you'd also need to write the compiler yourself from scratch
to be
> absolutely certain. Remember what Ken Thompson did
>
> http://www.acm.org/classics/sep95/
>
> //Anders
>
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