Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Thu 2nd Sep 2004 19:56 UTC, submitted by Jon Cooper
"We evaluated the security features of Windows XP SP2 on a test machine, following a clean install of XP Pro with no configuration changes and no third-party software or drivers installed. We installed XP with the NTFS file system, choosing all of the factory defaults, then patched it with each recommended security update including SP-1 (required), before installing SP2." Read the rest at TheRegister.
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Actually, every unix admin i know disallows any login from root anywhere, console, terminal, ssh, X, etc and relies on su in order to do anything with administrative priviledges.
So no...you can't just "log in as root and rm -rf /"
it makes you really think about what you are going to do. It's not difficult to do this, it's just a change in one file.