[Linux-disciples] Why no password for the root account?

[Stephen R Laniel]

On Sat, Apr 30, 2005 at 03:34:48PM -0400, Chung-chieh Shan wrote:
> In the nuclear business, people try to secure a computer from an
> attacker with physical access.  The following paper is interesting:
>     http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/tamper.html

I'm reading it as we speak; thanks, Ken!

> One author of this paper is Markus Kuhn, who has written lots more on
> computer security (PhD thesis on computer display eavesdropping) as well
> as Unicode, international date/time notation, international paper sizes,
> etc.  Thread convergence!
>     http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/
>     http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/unicode.html

Funnily enough, I stumbled on the latter paper a while back
when I was converting everything over to UTF-8. ... Ah, now
I see why: googling for UTF-8+Linux gives Kuhn's paper as
the first relevant link.

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