How could this possibly help - One could still switch the CD, plug in a USB disk with an alternate boot environment, and as a last resort change the boot firmware. I hardly see a chance of this suceeding, when physical access control is lost. Regards -Sven On Mon, September 21, 2009 17:20, Arno Wagner wrote: > > There are possibilities to fight this, e.g. a hard power-cycle every > few hours and hardware that makes the HDDs unavailable until the CD has > successfully booted. But I doubt that is an adequate solution here > and it has drastic negative impact on reliability. > > Better just do a careful restrictive firewall configuration, and > make sure your system is patched. > > Arno > -- > Arno Wagner, Dr. sc. techn., Dipl. Inform., CISSP -- Email: > arno@xxxxxxxxxxx > GnuPG: ID: 1E25338F FP: 0C30 5782 9D93 F785 E79C 0296 797F 6B50 1E25 > 338F > ---- > Cuddly UI's are the manifestation of wishful thinking. -- Dylan Evans > > If it's in the news, don't worry about it. The very definition of > "news" is "something that hardly ever happens." -- Bruce Schneier > _______________________________________________ > dm-crypt mailing list > dm-crypt@xxxxxxxx > http://www.saout.de/mailman/listinfo/dm-crypt > _______________________________________________ dm-crypt mailing list dm-crypt@xxxxxxxx http://www.saout.de/mailman/listinfo/dm-crypt
