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From: kellow@ndcheg.cheg.nd.edu (John Kellow)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.appletalk
Subject: Anyone using macdump?
Message-ID: <929@ndcheg.cheg.nd.edu>
Date: 13 Nov 89 05:16:24 GMT
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Organization: Dep't of Chemical Eng., Univ. of Notre Dame
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I've been playing around with the macdump program that lets you dump a
mac hard disk to a unix host.  It seems to work pretty well.  Is
anyone using this on a regular basis - if so I'd like to hear from you
about any problems or comments that you may have.  I don't want to
rely on it until I know its reliable.  One thing I'm concerned about is
security.  What prevents an unauthorized person from doing a dump of your
mac?  Even if you restrict access to the macdump program, I don't see
why someone couldn't just get a copy of the program themselves and
compile it.  Otherwise it seems like a nice idea.

John Kellow
kellow@ndcheg.cheg.nd.edu