"I plan to work on..." for FC5

Josh Boyer jwboyer at jdub.homelinux.org
Fri Jun 10 23:46:08 UTC 2005


On Fri, 2005-06-10 at 19:36 -0400, Alan Cox wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 10, 2005 at 06:36:40PM +0100, David Woodhouse wrote:
> > Who runs a password-protected bootloader? You steal my laptop and you've
> > got access to all my data anyway.
> 
> Paranoid companies run password protected bios which unlocks the password
> protected disk which loads the protected bootloader. Its easy to do with an
> IBM thinkpad

Yes, it is.  And it's really, really annoying sometimes :).

josh




More information about the Fedora-maintainers mailing list