[89482] in Cypherpunks
Re: Profiling/pc security at Ben-Gurion Airport, Tel Aviv, Israel
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (phelix@vallnet.com)
Wed Nov 5 05:23:17 1997
From: phelix@vallnet.com
To: cypherpunks@algebra.com
Date: Tue, 04 Nov 1997 20:57:00 GMT
Reply-To: phelix@vallnet.com
On 4 Nov 1997 14:08:19 -0600, kraiwut@samart.co.th wrote:
>
>Profiling/personal computer security at Ben Gurion Airport, Tel Aviv
>I just had a rather unholy experience in Israel. Maybe someone with
>expertise can email me a few suggestions with regards to securing a PC at
>start up.
>
[ long horror story deleted]
>
>What can I do to make the computer fucking impenetrable at start up? --- to
>the point that they have to ask me for the password or nothing moves.
Nothing can stop them completely from starting up your machine. The best
thing you can do is to use a bios password, but that won't hold up if
somebody cracks open the machine.
If somebody can get physical control of your computer, they can start it
up. However, that doesn't mean that they can run anything important.
Encrypt your files and install everything on one of the secure filesystems
floating around ( like SFS from
http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~pgut001/sfs.html ).
Also check out the following site for a description of a secure notebook
machine:
http://www.eskimo.com/~joelm/cbintro.html
-- Phelix
