Re: Sysadmins

[Jonathan S. Shapiro]

On Thu, 2005-11-03 at 07:56 +0100, address@hidden wrote:

> Moreover, often hardware is shared among several users, so it *can't* be
> under the control of a single person (other than the admin).

*Nothing* is *ever* under the control of the admin. Everything is always
under the control of the software. The admin's authority/ability derives
from this.

Your comment that the administrator controls the boot loader is true
today. It will probably continue to be true that the administrator can
*replace* the OS. Given coming changes in PC architecture, it will
probably *not* continue to be true that this can be done without
detection, and it will not necessarily be true that changing the OS will
allow successful inspection of data written by the previous OS.

shap