[mythtv-users] Forgot password; Choose door A, B or C?

[Greg Woods]

On Thu, 2014-04-24 at 12:30 -0500, Leif Pihl wrote:

> For now, it's enough to know that it CAN be secured.

As always, this depends on what you are wanting to secure it against. If
you just want to keep the teenage kid from rooting the box, then
securing the BIOS and boot loader might be enough. On the other hand, if
the kid is savvy enough to replace the BIOS chip on the motherboard, and
sometimes is left alone long enough, they could still get in. 

For machines in public places, do you have to worry about someone who is
willing to physically destroy the lock box holding the machine, or are
there other security measures (cameras, guards, etc.) already in place
that would prevent that?

Can you be sufficiently certain that the software you are running on the
box doesn't have any security holes that could be exploited to gain
privileged access?

Etc.

Point being, security is never black and white, it's secure or it isn't.
It always depends on what your threats are. Big difference between the
neighbor's kid and the NSA.

--Greg