On Fri, 04 Jul 2008 10:22:12 +0100, Invisible wrote:

> Jim Henderson wrote:
> 
>> Well, it's not that difficult to understand - this is what happens when
>> technically incompetent people decide how to implement policy.
> 
> What's technical? The sysadmin is, by definition, God. You can't stop
> God from doing things. QED. You don't need to know a thing about
> technology to comprehend this extremely simple principle.

You'd think so, but clearly the evidence suggests it's not that obvious - 
otherwise they *would* have grasped it.

>> That said, there are ways, for example, to prevent a sysadmin from
>> seeing files in a filesystem.  File-level encryption, for example - or
>> directory- level.  With Linux, this is almost so simple as to be
>> trivial using encfs (of course with requisite Linux-foo skills).
> 
> Yeah, sure, but the *key* has to be stored somewhere. ;-)

The key is in my head.  If you can extract my password from my brain, 
you'll have proven that you *are* God.

Jim

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