Re: [PLUG] kon-boot: there goes the neighborhood

[Greg Helledy <gregsonh@gra-inc.com>]

> On Tue, 19 May 2009, Brian Vagnoni wrote:
> 
>> http://www.piotrbania.com/all/kon-boot/
>>
>> First I'm hearing about this.
> 
> Nothing really new, here.   See, e.g., pnordahl's Windows password
> reset disk:
> 
>   http://home.eunet.no/pnordahl/ntpasswd/
> 
> Linux is even easier.  Typically, all you need to do is add 'single'
> to your boot options and you're up and running in single-user mode.
> If the distro puts a password on single-user mode, there are simple
> ways to bypass that, as well.
> 
> If you don't have physical security, you don't have security.
> 
> Paul


I don't see why this is such a big deal from the security perspective. 
I can already use any Live CD to copy anything I like from (or anything 
I like onto) a system I have access to.  I suppose the difference would 
be that this gets around the protection of encrypted partitions.

Greg

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