Re: A couple of random questions about login

[Ian Malone]

On 3 September 2013 12:45, Patrick O'Callaghan  wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 2, 2013 at 4:42 PM, Bill Oliver  wrote:
> > My wife turned to me and said, "If I were the bad guy, I'd just have the
> > computer delete everything if someone entered the boat name, or at least
> > send me a text.  The boat was an obvious guess, and I would never
> > accidentally type it in."
> >
> > My answer was "That makes sense, but I have no clue about how to do it."
>
> So you want the bad guy to be able to delete all your files by typing in the
> name of your boat?

The final question in security decisions is often, "would I rather
this copy of the data was destroyed than exposed?"