recovery from stupid error

[skaller]

On Thu, 2005-07-14 at 21:45 -0700, Farhad Shakiba wrote:
> On 7/14/05, Judd Pickell <pickell at gmail.com> wrote:

> I believe the root access through recovery mode could be a problem.
> Any feature that gives full administrator access  to my computer
> within 30 seconds  of physical contact & without any external
> utilities is a problem. If someone stumbles across my computer at work
> when I'm out of the office for a few minutes, they might not have
> knoppix in their pocket but all they have to do is poweroff ->
> recovery mode.

Get a computer with a BIOS that has password protection in it?

-- 
John Skaller <skaller at users dot sourceforge dot net>

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