Could we continue the Post and discuss PCI compliance or better yet 'Bios' Hardening with what little I know about it? Obviously encryption is a better option for harddisks etc. I think any entered data that a user uses in a public 'box' should be automatically refreshed after it is sent 'and removed from the storage file'. I wish we could continue this discussion longer apparently no one cares. Thank you all once again for positive help, > Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2014 23:33:03 -0600 > From: aberg010 at my.hennepintech.edu > To: tclug-list at mn-linux.org > Subject: Re: [tclug-list] Do strong root passwords prevent alternative access? > > On 2014.02.27 23:26, tclug at freakzilla.com wrote: > > Physical access to a machine trumps everything. Even strong encryption. > Physical access will give you control of the hardware, but it doesn't get you a free pass to the encrypted data. > Getting at that will generally require other things like a wrench and physical access to the owner. > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20140228/01c5ea77/attachment.html>