[Klug-general] The most secure Linux laptop in the world

[Karl Lattimer]

On Tue, 2007-11-27 at 20:17 +0000, George Prowse wrote:
> Matthew Macdonald-Wallace wrote:
> > On Tue, 2007-11-27 at 12:25 +0000, Stephen Ryan wrote:
> >> Hi Stephen, from near Hythe in Kent here. Just joined KLUG.
> >>  
> >> I am on a mission to find the most secure (yet functional) Linux
> >> distro in the world. It must have the tiniest of footprints.
> >> I have played with Knoppix CD, but i want something much, much,
> >> smaller and something that even a novice can configure.
> >> Smallest amount of code - just enough functionality.
> >>  
> >> http://intrench.blogspot.com/2007/11/if-there-is-such-thing-as-total.html
> > 
> > Every system, no matter how secure and well-designed, will be broken by
> > some idiot user. (James Gaskin)
> > 
> > If you think technology can solve your security problems, then you don't
> > understand the problems and you don't understand the technology. (Bruce
> > Schneier)
> > 
> > Social engineering bypasses all technologies, including firewalls.
> > (Kevin Mitnick)
> > 
> > The only truly secure system is one that is powered off, cast in a block
> > of concrete and sealed in a lead-lined room with armed guards, and even
> > then I'm not so sure... (Gene Spafford)
> > 
> > My £0.02,
> > 
> > Matt
> > 
> aren't those someone else's 8c?

A popular pole recently discovered that Bruce Schneier's words are worth
the sum of the highest 5 primes a modern von neuman machine can compute
within the halflife of Chuck Norris, but no-one knows how long chuck
norris will live.

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