lina wrote:
On Friday 23,November,2012 01:00 AM, Richard Owlett wrote:
I've a laptop whose *SOLE* purpose in life is to be used in a manner
that a even I would never do on a machine with real data on it.
It has intrinsically the best security in place
Only _*I*_ have physical access to the machine.
It has no possibility of connecting to the internet.
It will *never* be updated.
The installation CD lives in the drive, for various reasons the hard
drive is wiped and reinstall done 2-3 times per week.
When I boot I want to do *ANYTHING*!
HOW?
{Owl now ducks for cover from incoming brick-a-brac ;}
Out of pure curiosity, why this machine to be "chastened" in this way?
*ROFL* - you were much gentler than various long time
friends and relatives ;)
Actually there are solid reasons my work pattern. As to the
dramatic description, that has a different rationale.
As to the machine, I'm a "learn by doing" learner. In my
three score and ten I've learned that failure can be much
more instructive than success. Therefore I can assume the
machine will eventually be trashed in varying degrees. As to
the frequent reinstalls, I haven't decided what
configuration I want. The only way to find out is to try
each of the options.
As to the statement, I was editorializing a bit (my bits are
larger than average). One of my pet peeves are those saying
that automatically applied security blankets can solve all
security problems. I was trying to hint that security in the
end depends on the user. *nix environments have historically
been multi-user. That made it reasonable that the OS be very
security conscious. Personal computers are called *personal*
for a reason.
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