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Old Dec 30, 2005 | 8:23 pm
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Originally Posted by Kremmen
It doesn't require one. I treat Windows as inherently insecure and consider password protection of it pointless (against any intruder with any real knowledge). I assume that I would have had to provide any password if asked, just as I had to unlock my checked bag to let them search that.

The funny thing is that I had been considering just the night before whether to disable the Windows boot altogether and make it boot straight into Linux. I so wish I'd done that, because I've have loved to have seen what he'd have done with a Linux command line.
Cheap substitute: Place the C/D ROM drive at the top of the boot drives and leave a Knoppix bootable C/D in the machine. He can still get to the Windows drive but it's more of a hassle.

This might also limit the damage possible by powering down improperly since Knoppix accesses Windows drives as read/only drives.

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