[Wolves] Forced to ditch Linux

Andy Smith andy at lug.org.uk
Mon Aug 27 21:17:54 BST 2007


Hi,

On Mon, Aug 27, 2007 at 07:20:13PM +0100, Chris Fox wrote:
> Mark Harrison wrote:
> > You may suggest it, but, realistically, if someone came into my house 
> > asking for permission to boot one of my PCs into a different O/S from a 
> > pen drive, then I'd say "No".
> 
> Why not? What possible damage would it do that they couldn't do with the
> existing OS?

They can read and write to areas of the hard drive that the normal
OS wouldn't let them.  Plus, my computers run what I want them to
run and I wouldn't appreciate people just rebooting them to boot
their own operating system.

And it'd bypass all my keyloggers as well. :(

Cheers,
Andy
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