On Sat, Jul 13, 2002 at 09:11:13AM -0400, Jeff Gutierrez wrote: > I'm actually thing more in a household setting.
In which case it's hopeless. My first accomplished hacks were in the household setting. I don't remember them, but my mother does. I figure out how to pick the locks of my father's table so I could get some coins for halo-halo. ;) Then of course I remember tinkering with his awesome PDA-like gadget back as a grade 1 student. Papa would pick me up and bring me to his office so I could nap while he went out and went to meetings. He explicitly told me never to mess around with that PDA-like gadget of his but I'd always find it and play with it. I can't quite remember if I figured out his password for that, though. Must have been too scared of wrecking it and getting whipped with a belt. > What if Tatay Juan decided to install Linux in his family's only > desktop, and gave each family member a user account. Tatay Juan has > two (2) teenaged kids, Juan Jr. and Maria who respectively have > Jijo-Sevilla-like, and Sacha-Chua-like smartness and cleverness. He > is aware that his teenaged kids are tinkerers and will likely play a > prank on him after compromising the system by booting from a rescue > disk. Actually, what Tatay Juan is more paranoid of is the kids might > discover his priced personal collection of digital videos, and photos > which he *secretly* took during his intimate moments with his past, > pre-Pekta girlfriends. If these videos and photos of Tatay Juan and his pre-Pekta girlfriends are so precious, I wonder if maybe he can put them into a tarball, encrypt them with various pre-Pekta passwords (since Pekta is a network administrator who I wager is the one from whom Juna Jr. and Maria got their intelligences and probably already knows all of Tatay Juan's Pekta-era passwords) and then compress them and then encrypt them again. Or he can sell them on the Internet and convince Pekta that at least the money will help put food on the table. There's no saying, Pekta -might- enjoy the videos and actually buy some copies for herself. ;) > Now, with all the security facilities in place, Tatay Juan is afraid > that Nanay Pekta, who's a network administrator, might become > suspiciuously curious and might join Juan Jr. and Maria in trying to > break into the household box. > > Oh, Tatay Juan is furked! Indeed, I'd wager he's furked. Openness will be his only redeeming factor. -OR- he can go to a pre-Pekta girlfriend and ask to store his videos there. He can always go over to watch them, but then that might make Pekta even more curious... ;) --> Jijo PS- I sure hope you're nowhere near Tatay Juan's state of despair. PS2- having non-world-readable personal directories always appealed to me. The awful part of the flat Windows 9x system is that everyone can see my browser cache, browser history, and "My Documents". It's not perfect, but it wards off enough wanderers IMO. ;) -- Federico Sevilla III : <http://jijo.free.net.ph/> Network Administrator : The Leather Collection, Inc. GnuPG Key ID : 0x93B746BE _ Philippine Linux Users Group. Web site and archives at http://plug.linux.org.ph To leave: send "unsubscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To subscribe to the Linux Newbies' List: send "subscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
