On Thu, 2005-11-03 at 07:56 +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Moreover, often hardware is shared among several users, so it *can't* be > under the control of a single person (other than the admin).
*Nothing* is *ever* under the control of the admin. Everything is always under the control of the software. The admin's authority/ability derives from this. Your comment that the administrator controls the boot loader is true today. It will probably continue to be true that the administrator can *replace* the OS. Given coming changes in PC architecture, it will probably *not* continue to be true that this can be done without detection, and it will not necessarily be true that changing the OS will allow successful inspection of data written by the previous OS. shap _______________________________________________ L4-hurd mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/l4-hurd
