System security and physical access.

Thom Paine thom at customnetworks.ca
Thu Sep 30 13:09:19 UTC 2004


On Wed, 2004-09-29 at 21:00, Marc Adler wrote:

> I was surprised to see that I could access the Linux partition so 
> easily. All you have to do is run Partition Commander et al., resize the 
> Linux partition, install some version of Windows, get whatever info you 
> need, then repeat the process in reverse. No one would be the wiser.
> 
I've been experimenting with Sorcery linux. It talks about making an
encrypted file system to prevent access like this I think.

I tried running it on a PII 400 with 512M ram, and that's not quite
enough horsepower to compile all the sources in a timely fashion.

The website is http://sorcerer.wox.org






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