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From"Nicholas J. Leon" <>
DateWed, 10 Jun 1998 22:50:44 -0400 (EDT)
SubjectRe: Speaking of SysRQ...
On Wed, 10 Jun 1998, Richard B. Johnson wrote:

 # It has been pretty much accepted in Commercial Industry that if you have
 # physical access to a computer, there is no real security. A floppy disk

Amen. I learned that the absolute, irrevocable first rule of security was
physical security. Ignoring such things as default passwords, boot
parameters, and the ilk, a sufficiently motivated industrious person could
always grab the hard drive. 

Anyway, wasn't there a patch posted about six months ago or so that
enabled passwords on SysRQ ?


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..nicholas j. leon..........mrnick.binary9.net.........nicholas@binary9.net..

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