Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!samsung!umich!umeecs!msi-s0.msi.umn.edu!cs.umn.edu!ux.acs!clarson From: clarson@ux.acs.umn.edu (Chaz Larson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc Subject: Re: Resedit and FileGuard Message-ID: <1952@ux.acs.umn.edu> Date: 3 Aug 90 20:08:39 GMT References: <1938@ux.acs.umn.edu> <1990Aug2.164635.6825@midway.uchicago.edu> <1941@ux.acs.umn.edu> <1990Aug3.163157.28701@midway.uchicago.edu> Reply-To: clarson@ux.acs.umn.edu (Chaz Larson) Organization: Iron City, USA Lines: 37 In article <1990Aug3.163157.28701@midway.uchicago.edu> dwal@ellis.uchicago.edu (David Walton) writes: paraphased: "What was your point, chaz?" Boy, I was really in the mood to babble, yesterday, wasn't I? My point, I guess, was that the original poster's worrying about ResEdit being able to gut his security software seems a little needless. If ResEdit is not available on the secured machine, then the only people he has to worry about are malicious folks who bring ResEdit or similar tools into the facility with the intent of using them for nefarious purposes, and attempting to protect his FileGuard software from these people will be near impossible, no matter what he uses. If ResEdit _is_ available on the secured machine [which I assumed it was, given that he seemed pretty concerned about the possibility] then he opens himself up to average users saying "What's this?" and mucking around, as well as encouraging the malicious ones. An analogy would be: The front door of my house has a good, solid lock on it [unpickable, according to the manufacturer]; however, any thief with a chainsaw [a tool which is fairly easy to come by] could very easily bypass the lock and go right on in, if he wanted my TV badly enough. I just don't think losing sleep over trying to eliminate the fairly unlikely possibility makes any sense. Then again, I might just be babbling again, David. Fell free to ignore me if I am... 8) -- ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ "Must think...bubble pipe will relax me and I think..." - Flaming Carrot clarson@ux.acs.umn.edu AOL:Crowbone