Linux uncrackable...?

[Matthew Miller]

On Sun, Sep 02, 2012 at 09:46:58AM -0700, jdow wrote:
> My take away from this is that absolutely nothing except a totally
> disconnected machine in an impenetrable safe is uncrackable, even Fedora
> machines. Some form of "AV" tool is called for as well as routine checks
> with the various system check utilities. Even that won't prevent 100% of
> all attempts from succeeding. But it will help.

The machine doesn't even need to be compromised ("cracked") in the
traditional sense. It could very well simply be a stolen password. That
doesn't mean Fedora is "uncrackable", just that that's not even needed.

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Matthew Miller <mattdm at mattdm.org>
Senior Systems Architect -- SEAS Computing
Harvard School of Engineering & Applied Sciences