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From: Grant <emailgrant@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Recovering root password
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> > > On a notebook, there isn't an OS in existence that is immune to a
> > > LiveCD.
> >
> > Linux is. In the sense that you can't get at the data if the disc is
> > encrypted, even not with a LiveCD. You can only destroy/overwrite it.
>
> Yes, I realised that when typing the original, but left it as is - too
> many IF conditionals would be needed to be accurate and English is
> almost useless at getting IFs to parse correctly :-)
>
> Passwords come from a time when users had terminals that log onto
> machines that are somewhere else and the user can't lay a finger on
> them. Things have indeed changed since 1978
Would the type of filesystem encryption you guys are talking about be
unsuitable for a high-traffic server because of performance
considerations?
- Grant
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