On Fri, Apr 21, 2006 at 04:49:06PM +1000, Simon Wong wrote: > Don't worry Glen, there's absolutely no way that I want ANYONE to be > able to do this. > > That's probably the scariest thing personally, it's a public humiliation > for myself if someone does it relatively *easily*. > > That's why i thought I'd try and garner some comments from the brains > trust...
As I don't think anyone is actually able to decrypt to get root's password, the only way is social engineering. And when the prize of a $1000 is worth many months average wages in some places... You can imagine someone bribing with hald the prize money or using it to setup blackmail or whatever ... Matt -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
