I have heard so many blowhards saying how safe and secure your data is if it's on an NTFS partition, yet when I boot to Red Hat 8 with NTFS support enabled, I can read any file on the NTFS partition. This doesn't scream data security to me. If Linux can easily read it just by mounting the drive, how secure could NTFS possibly be?

Nothing is secure if someone has physical access to your computer. Including Linux.

If you repeat something enough times, you might start to believe it.

Actually, if you have physical access to a system, you can usually get anything you want. XP is claimed to be the "most secure version ever", but you can get full access to the hard-drive by booting to rescue mode with a 2000 disc, no password needed. Pull a Linux hard-drive out of the box, plug it into another Linux system, and you can mount the hard-drive, chown all the files, and have full access.

You would need to go to some sort of encrypted file system to make it any better.

A friend years ago told me how to be good sales man. His key to success:

"Fling as much BS as you can. Some may eventualy stick."

I think it was P T Barnum that said ’’There’s a sucker born every day.’’

You didn't actualy believe Bill the Gates did you? :-))

Well, look at the facts:

NTFS has security. That security can be broken if you gain access to the physical hard drive.

ext3 has security. That security can be broken if you gain access to the physical hard drive.

Those two sentences look a bit similar

Dont get me wrong, I dont like the security flaws found in other areas of windows every day. So I use linux as much as I can (accept I really like warcraft 3 )

I hear that. Age of Mythology has me keeping windoze around a bit longer..