Life in an insecure world

John Watlington wad at laptop.org
Wed Feb 4 14:18:28 EST 2009


Is this really true ?   If you've removed /versions, how does alt-boot
find the other image ?

On Feb 4, 2009, at 10:33 AM, C. Scott Ananian wrote:

> On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 12:22 AM, John Watlington <wad at laptop.org>  
> wrote:
>> Should we care ?  I just proved that it is possible for any kid in
>> Peru to slag their laptop by
>> simply typing "sudo rm -rf /*" in a terminal window, a similar feat
>> of child-like naivete.
>
> Alt-boot could recover from most cases like this -- although it will
> always be possible to do something similar.
>  --scott
>
> -- 
>                          ( http://cscott.net/ )




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