Yeah, with physical access everything is pretty easy to get... and aside from encrypting your drives, locking your cases or the door to your place, and aside from setting your bios/GRUB/supervisor/hard drive password for boot... there are cold booting options that exploit the fact that RAM retains the encryption keys to all of that fun stuff for a while. So do a cold boot, snag the encryption keys and everything that everyone has posted here is STILL at risk. Depends on how much they want your data... I highly doubt you have that kind of an enemy anyways ;)
After catting a binary, "clear" only clears the screen. Your characters will still be garbage (i.e., when you type, or your prompt)."reset" does, in fact, correct this issue.
sariduvarJul 23, 2008
no, it's not. you need physical access to the machine to do that.
Closed AccountJul 24, 2008
I agree. Great post!
jubalintJul 24, 2008
Dugg for great explanation of SSH Tunneling. It's a incredibly useful tool that can be hard to clearly explain.
voodoosteve84Jul 24, 2008
Dugg because I was curious as to what the hell a Linux admin actually does
sihingJul 24, 2008
Yeah, with physical access everything is pretty easy to get... and aside from encrypting your drives, locking your cases or the door to your place, and aside from setting your bios/GRUB/supervisor/hard drive password for boot... there are cold booting options that exploit the fact that RAM retains the encryption keys to all of that fun stuff for a while. So do a cold boot, snag the encryption keys and everything that everyone has posted here is STILL at risk. Depends on how much they want your data... I highly doubt you have that kind of an enemy anyways ;)
clithJul 24, 2008
Excellent article. Actually useful for experienced Linux folk.
voyvfJul 25, 2008
After catting a binary, "clear" only clears the screen. Your characters will still be garbage (i.e., when you type, or your prompt)."reset" does, in fact, correct this issue.
jay019Jul 27, 2008
sudo apt-get remove penis.give that one a go.you'll probably get...E: Couldn't find package penis. lol.