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Date:      Mon, 04 Jan 1999 19:38:46 +0100
From:      Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>
To:        "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@zippy.cdrom.com>
Cc:        Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>, Tom Bartol <bartol@salk.edu>, current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: New boot blocks for serial console ... 
Message-ID:  <14874.915475126@critter.freebsd.dk>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 04 Jan 1999 10:09:05 PST." <38397.915473345@zippy.cdrom.com> 

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In message <38397.915473345@zippy.cdrom.com>, "Jordan K. Hubbard" writes:
>> Not at all.   Ever heard of a padlock?
>
>Give me physical access to your machine, with or without a padlock,
>and I'll have root on that baby before you have a chance to come back
>from lunch.
>
>I think the original comment that there's no security without physical
>security has definite merit.  The NSA learned this decades ago! :)

Uhm, well there is, but it is called "tamper-proof hardware" and costs
a fortune.

--
Poul-Henning Kamp             FreeBSD coreteam member
phk@FreeBSD.ORG               "Real hackers run -current on their laptop."
"ttyv0" -- What UNIX calls a $20K state-of-the-art, 3D, hi-res color terminal

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