Wilfredo Sanchez wrote:
>
> | While it is certainly true that a person could eventually get
> physical
> | access into the machine, it is a significantly more difficult
> task and
> | therefore a significant distinction still exists between the
> data stored
> | on the hard drive and stored in, say, a floppy.
>
> This is becoming less and less true. One of the driving reasons
> why we're trying to work out this issue is FireWire. At some point,
> you might expect a computer that uses FireWire for both the internal
> and external drives, and the kernel isn't necessarily going to be
> able to know what's "locked inside" the computer vs what's outside
> the computer; it's (possibly) all one big hot-swappable bus. Your
> root device could certainly live outside the box. Distinguishing
> "easily removeable" isn't the way to go here.
As I pointed out, the distinction is one of intent on the part of
the admin.
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