Life on the bleeding edge

[Howard Gibson]

On Sat, 30 Sep 2006 16:15:23 -0400
CLIFFORD ILKAY <clifford_ilkay-biY6FKoJMRdBDgjK7y7TUQ at public.gmane.org> wrote:

> On Saturday 30 September 2006 13:20, Howard Gibson wrote:
> >    I did not set up a /home partition on my laptop.  If someone
> > steals it, I want to maximize the difficulties of getting it to do
> > anything, much less provide access to all my files.  With a little
> > luck, the Red Hat sticker will get the point across, ahead of time.
> >
> >    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?

Clifford,

   I didn't say I could make it impossible.  Making it difficult stops most bad people. 

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