I’d love to see someone get access to my hard drives on my computer without my password. It would take YEARS to decrypt the drive. On Feb 27, 2014, at 11:26 PM, tclug at freakzilla.com wrote: > Physical access to a machine trumps everything. Even strong encryption. > > On Thu, 27 Feb 2014, paul g wrote: > >> A simple question: Do strong passwords on a unencrypted harddisk 'root or >> sudo users' prevent really any sense of security if one chooses to boot into >> the system using a,an 'prefabbed .iso' or run a program that could search >> for a plain text password such as 'plain text'. Would the kernel version >> matter for security reasons in this event? >> Thank you, > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list