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To: Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
cc: Tom Bartol <bartol@salk.edu>, current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: New boot blocks for serial console ... 
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Date: Mon, 04 Jan 1999 10:09:05 -0800
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From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@zippy.cdrom.com>
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> Not at all.   Ever heard of a padlock?

Give me physical access to your machine, with or without a padlock,
and I'll have root on that baby before you have a chance to come back
from lunch.

I think the original comment that there's no security without physical
security has definite merit.  The NSA learned this decades ago! :)

- Jordan

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