[ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu on the BBC!!!

[Paul Sutton]

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Samuel Toogood wrote:
> ------- Original message -------
>> From: Jon Reynolds <maillist at jcrdevelopments.com>
>> To: ubuntu-uk at lists.ubuntu.com
>> Sent: 24.10.'09,  10:50
>>
>> Am I thinking about this wrong or is it true that using a live CD, one
>> can just boot into the live environment and then mount the host
>> computer's hard drive and browse its contents. Isn't that a really bad
>> security issue?
>>
>> Jon Reynolds
>>
> No that's perfectly correct. It's one of the reasons Ubuntu offers home 
> directory encryption.
> 
> Sam 
> 
I think this has been said before once you have physical access to a
computer it is vulnerable,  however if you disable boot from cdrom, as a
bios option, and probably from usb as well.  Password protect the bios
then you do add some sort of security,

of course if its a server then you would probably want to remove the cd
drice anyway, (however that seems a little extreme),

is home directory encryption available in 8.10 or later editions ?

Paul

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Paul Sutton
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Ubuntu 9.10 out 29th October 2009 - www.ubuntu.com
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