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From: cpcahil@virtech.UUCP (Conor P. Cahill)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: A way to monitor your files
Keywords: UNIX
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Date: 10 Sep 89 02:09:39 GMT
References: <547@chem.ucsd.EDU> <1140@virtech.UUCP> <29114@news.Think.COM>
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In article <29114@news.Think.COM>, barmar@think.COM (Barry Margolin) writes:
> In general, it's very hard to protect oneself against omnipotent
> beings.

Yes.  I did not intend to say that C2 is the solution to the problem with
the superuser, but further levels of security (possibly B1, but more 
probably B2) will begin to dispense with the idea of an omnipotent being.

Of course as we climb the scale, the system looks less and less like the
good old unix we have come to know and love.



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