CHRIS REDDEN Relying on permissions for security is a terrible idea. Anyone with root access to ANY computer can plug a physical drive into it and setuid/setgid to whatever they want. The only limitation is that you can't do that with the drive your currently booted off.
So if someone took the drive out of your computer and plugged it into their computer, it's already trivial for them to access all of your files regardless of the permissions you have set. All he did was change the _default_ behaviour on NTFS drive, so that you don't have to worry about users lining up between OSes.
The only secure way to keep your data is to encrypt it.
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