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broadstairs:
--- Quote from: Bowdon on November 29, 2017, 11:19:42 AM ---I like how the BBC tells everyone how to do it ::)
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Well it was on a public forum so not really a secret anyway.
Stuart
sevenlayermuddle:
Worth bearing in mind, unless encryption is used, Unrestricted access to the filestore of any PC to which you have physical access is trivialially easy, be it Unix, Linux or Windows. You just remove or copy the disks, and mount them elsewhere.
With that in mind, I know a few knowledgeable experts who knowingly set Root password to ‘blank’ on Linux and Unix boxes, on the basis that the security it provides is just an illusion. Personally I do set a password.
sevenlayermuddle:
Interesting that the story seems to have broken as a result of a seemingly innocent character, casually offering it as a solution to a problem on a forum, blissfuly unaware of the gravity of his ‘discovery’. ::)
https://forums.developer.apple.com/thread/79235#
petef:
Here is a revised suggestion for Apple to use
kitz:
Not amused. Just shows that no system is infallible. This one is a bit of a big oopsie though :(
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