[Ilugc] Security in Ubuntu

  • From: sundaram@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Rahul Sundaram)
  • Date: Tue May 13 23:26:48 2008

Dennis Francis wrote:

But whatever encryption you provide, anyone with access to the
hardware is capable of destroying your data. The operating system
security is only about cutting off 'soft' attacks on the system.

That's a different kind of security you are talking about. I was 
referring to preventing unauthorized access. If you are worried about 
security in the sense of preventing data loss, you would do backups 
obviously.

Rahul

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