full-disclosure - Re: Ubuntu 11.10 now unsecure by default

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Message-ID: <4EC6B2D8.3090700@bibibox.fr>
Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2011 20:32:40 +0100
From: Olivier <feuille@...ibox.fr>
To: full-disclosure@...ts.grok.org.uk
Subject: Re: Ubuntu 11.10 now unsecure by default

On 11/18/2011 03:10 PM, Dan Kaminsky wrote:
> 
> 
> On Fri, Nov 18, 2011 at 5:01 AM, <Valdis.Kletnieks@...edu
> <mailto:Valdis.Kletnieks@...edu>> wrote:
> 
>     On Thu, 17 Nov 2011 15:53:41 CST, C de-Avillez said:
> 
>     > There is no guest account on an Ubuntu server, so at least there
>     > this is not a real/perceived risk.
> 
>     And nobody's *ever* installed the desktop version on a server
>     because they didn't
>     know any better, especially from Ubuntu's target audience.  Gotcha. ;)
> 
> 
> OK, seriously.  If you're sitting in front of a machine that's
> presenting you a login prompt, you've got enough privileges to insert a
> bootable USB/CD and pull all the data / make yourself an account
> (FDE/Bios PW notwithstanding).

My disk is password protected, and the whole system (except /boot) is
encrypted. Ubuntu guest account is definitively the best way to hack a
running laptop (or workstation).

-- 
Olivier

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