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From: gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: A way to monitor your files
Message-ID: <11035@smoke.BRL.MIL>
Date: 12 Sep 89 03:53:44 GMT
References: <547@chem.ucsd.EDU> <1140@virtech.UUCP> <29114@news.Think.COM> <1142@virtech.UUCP> <11022@smoke.BRL.MIL> <4113@buengc.BU.EDU>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn)
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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In article <4113@buengc.BU.EDU> bph@buengc.bu.edu (Blair P. Houghton) writes:
>As long as the superuser is a sufficiently cleared individual, then the
>proper security is being maintained no matter what software he can use
>to get into the files.  As in a traditional paper system, one has to
>place trust in the handlers of the data.

If you recall how this thread started, the individual was complaining
that his local super-users were abusing their powers and snooping in
his private data files.  The discussion about DoD trusted computing
systems started with somebody's more-or-less irrelevant reply.  The
original situation had nothing to do with TCBs, MACs, etc.