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From: romkey@amiga.UUCP (John Romkey)
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Subject: re: The PC as a trusted client in a TCP/IP network
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Date: 25 Nov 89 04:10:13 GMT
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But Henry, the problem is that your average single user workstation is
no more secure than a PC is; the user can usually become root pretty
easily and hack whatever he or she wants. A lot of the problem is security 
paridigms that depend on your machine to have its proper IP address or
the use of "secure" port numbers.

I guess you did say "a decent operating system (one that pays some
attention to security)", and I don't want to get into a discussion of
whether or not UNIX (and which release of whoever's version) is
decent. But basically, I believe that the problem isn't that MS-DOS is
awful (it is), but that the security paridigms in place are bogus.
			- john romkey
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