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From: burzio@mmlai.UUCP (Anthony Burzio)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: gov't certified "secure" Unix
Summary: Security and the final leap...
Keywords: security
Message-ID: <574@mmlai.UUCP>
Date: 26 Jul 89 22:39:07 GMT
References: <310@pwa-b.UUCP> <1038@riddle.UUCP> <11099@ibmpcug.UUCP>
Organization: Martin Marietta Labs, Baltimore, MD
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In article <11099@ibmpcug.UUCP>, ronald@ibmpcug.UUCP (Ronald Khoo) writes:
>> _designed_to_meet_ ?  Do you know if it will actually be *certified*
>> before they sell it?
>> 
> (If so, I'll never buy it, secure un*x is a contradiction in terms :-) 8-)

Security on a UNIX system should be utterly optional.  At first you
should get a normal system without security from distribution.  Later,
you could then run a program, say called "Big Brother", that would 
modify things to add security...

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