Life on the bleeding edge

[Simon]

It would get around the BIOS boot issue, but he just implied that even then,
they would not be able to see his data, which implies the use of
encryption.  If encryption is not being used, then it's plain wrong to think
that a thief with physical access to your HDD will not be able to access
your data.

On 9/30/06, CLIFFORD ILKAY <clifford_ilkay-biY6FKoJMRdBDgjK7y7TUQ at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> On Saturday 30 September 2006 13:20, Howard Gibson wrote:
> >    If the thief can get into the BIOS and make it boot from install
> > media, they are going to have to blow away my root partition, and
> > any personal information I chose to leave on it.
>
> Wouldn't taking the hard drive out and attaching it to another
> machine, which boots from another device, circumvent the BIOS lock?
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