"I plan to work on..." for FC5

Panu Matilainen pmatilai at laiskiainen.org
Sun Jun 12 06:37:53 UTC 2005


On Fri, 10 Jun 2005, David Woodhouse wrote:

> On Fri, 2005-06-10 at 13:13 -0400, Dave Jones wrote:
>> So all I have to do is steal your laptop and phone, and I've got
>> access to all your data ? The auto-login bit scares me a little.
>> Having it lock the screen if you wander off I like the sound of
>> though.
>
> Who runs a password-protected bootloader? You steal my laptop and you've
> got access to all my data anyway.

That's why people encrypt their laptops, password protected bootloader 
wont help at all by itself.

 	- Panu -




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