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

["Paul L. Snyder" <plsnyder@drexel.edu>]

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
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