Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!usc!apple!well!svc
From: svc@well.UUCP (Leonard Rosenthol)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Disklock
Summary: Get Real Dude!!!
Keywords: security, hard disk, locking
Message-ID: <13517@well.UUCP>
Date: 8 Sep 89 16:30:51 GMT
References: <12133@ulysses.homer.nj.att.com> <13506@well.UUCP> <1573@draken.nada.kth.se>
Reply-To: svc@well.UUCP (Leonard Rosenthol)
Organization: Whole Earth 'Lectronic Link, Sausalito, CA
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In article <1573@draken.nada.kth.se> d88-jwa@nada.kth.se (Jon W{tte) writes:
>In article <13506@well.UUCP> svc@well.UUCP (Leonard Rosenthol) writes:
>>In article <12133@ulysses.homer.nj.att.com> boris@ulysses.homer.nj.att.com (Boris Altman) writes:
>>>2. If you shut mac down in some way other than normal SHUTDOWN,
>>>your disks will not be locked.
>
>>	I am curious as to how else you would shutDown your Macintosh? Even
>>the use of most of the ShutDown FKEY's and HC XCMD's will cause the disk to
>>lock - so how are you shutting down that does not lock it??
>
>Ever heard of SYSTEM CRASHES ? If you develop software, and want your source
>code to be safe from prying eyes (well, I don't, I give my code away, but I
>know people who do...) you damned well shut your macintosh down (although
>not intentionally) without locking the disk ! I have crashes thet MacsBug
>can't handle by the score every week !
>
	Sure I've heard of system crashes - though I try to write software
that doesn't do that too frequently!  But when it happens, my Mac REBOOTS! I
don't know about you (I am sure very few people do, or want to) but I don't
shut down (turn off) my Mac after a system crash and I would not want a 
protection product asking me my password EVERY time I rebooted/restarted.

	You also missed the second part of my message which explained that 
you can also force the Mac into a protected mode by using the included DA so
that AT ANY TIME you can protect the Mac from prying eyes.

>So, APPLE, why don't you run along and give us protected memory ? Huh ?
>(Hmm. I could write an INIT that patched the trap and OS dispatchers,
>and run all my Apps in protected mode. Hummm. GM: I smell a Quest ! :-)
>
	Why don't you find another forum for your protected memory flambe. You
and I both know that Apple is not giving it to us in System 7 and that they are
working on it for future OS's (when is the future, I don't know either??) so
flaming about it is not doing us or Apple any service...Give it a rest!!!


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