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From: mg32+@andrew.cmu.edu (Michael Ginsberg)
Newsgroups: alt.msdos.programmer,comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: Lotus's worksheet password protection
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Date: 11 Oct 89 21:46:22 GMT
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Um...

Think about it... if you could load a file that was password protected, it
wouldn't be a good protection scheme... I don't think anyone out there will
be able to tell you how to break Lotus' protection scheme, and if they could,
I would hope they wouldn't so those of us who use this on networks and on
easily accessable machines can feel (somewhat) safe in leaving protected files
lying around...


--Michael Ginsberg, Computer Operations
Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA

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