On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 12:14:09 -0800, Joe Zeff <joe@xxxxxxx> wrote: > On 02/16/2012 11:57 AM, Reindl Harald wrote: > >becasue it is mandatory and logical as pre-condition > >to disallow booting from external media > > You know that, I know that and, I'd hope, everybody on this list > knows that. I can assure you, however, from almost a decade's > experience doing tech support, that there are an awful lot of people > out there who know just enough to block booting from external media > but not enough to finish the job by setting a BIOS password. Except that it's useful to be able to boot from external media. I prefer to use encrypted disks. This protects against casual stuff and going much farther gets a lot harder when you are assuming people have unsupervised physical access to your machine. -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
