Immediately after buying a system, take out the factory drive and store it away. Put in a new drive, load whatever OS you want, have fun. When the system breaks, take out your drive, put back the factory drive, and send them the system.
This also solves any issue of improper handling of personal/confidential data.
Make a typo when entering the license key so it matches one of the "bad" keys, and all your data is gone.
I wonder if this guy thought about that scenario?
OTOH, what kind of evil company won't even give as trivial a patch as updating a time-zone file to their customers!?! Only true for systems that were built using shared time-zone files to begin with. I know of at least one "UNIX Like" real-time OS that was built with the time-zone table as data in a library that was then statically linked into all of the executables that used it. It might have made some sense in a real-time and/or embedded OS to do it that way, but it means you need to rebuild and replace all of those executables. If you then factor in all of the versions of all of those, it becomes a monstrous task.
Part of a "series"?
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Hardening Linux
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· Score: 2, Informative
The reviewer writes:
There is no coverage for a web server, such as Apache
It looks like the publisher already has a book out called "Hardening Apache".
I think you will find that malls are not so much "private property" as they are "places of public accommodation", which dramatically affects the rights of the public. However I don't think "discrimination" against geeks with cameras is part of any legislation, so it probably won't change anything in this case.
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Immediately after buying a system, take out the factory drive and store it away. Put in a new drive, load whatever OS you want, have fun. When the system breaks, take out your drive, put back the factory drive, and send them the system. This also solves any issue of improper handling of personal/confidential data.
Make a typo when entering the license key so it matches one of the "bad" keys, and all your data is gone. I wonder if this guy thought about that scenario?
It looks like the publisher already has a book out called "Hardening Apache".
I think you will find that malls are not so much "private property" as they are "places of public accommodation", which dramatically affects the rights of the public. However I don't think "discrimination" against geeks with cameras is part of any legislation, so it probably won't change anything in this case.