On Thursday 17 March 2016 17:04:04 Martin Smith wrote: > On 17/03/2016 04:55, Adam Wilson wrote: > > On Wed, 16 Mar 2016 23:12:06 +0530 Himanshu Shekhar > > > > <irm2015...@iiita.ac.in> wrote: > >> Ok! I understand GRUB password and other such passwords are > >> ineffective. I am also aware of the fact that hard drive can be read > >> anywhere unless it is encrypted. > >> The am eager to know a particular way (however bad it may be) to > >> secure a system, which I have not known yet. > > > > A BIOS password and full disk encryption. > > on all the older machines that I used to make if you had physical access > to the machine you could lose the bios password quite easily with a jumper > or a screwdriver, I dont know what the more modern motherboards are like > but surely they could also be similar...
Most, but not all. Some of them, (a small number of them?) you lose the password, the motherboard is dead. Lisi
