Florian Bantner ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > A fact about which I'm concerned > even more than about a hack from outside via the internet etc. is > real physical access to the box. Something hackers normaly don't pay > enough attention is that just somebody steps - let's say 6 o'clock > in the morning - into your room, shows you his police card - or what ever > govermental id card - and tells you that your computer is now his.
Use TMPFS. Encrypt your disk or do everything in RAM (maybe set up a diskless system booting from cd. See the bootcd-package). They might still be bugging your hardware. > You have to experience that for yourself to believe how easy this > could happen. Just be in the wrong place to the wrong time. > It happend to me once, just because I lived that time in a > flat-sharing community. I didn't see my computers for about a year > and then all harddisk had been removed and where broken. Did they replace the damage? - Rolf