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From: cmm1@cunixa.cc.columbia.edu (Christopher M Mauritz)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: computer security
Message-ID: <1990Nov20.221333.4619@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu>
Date: 20 Nov 90 22:13:33 GMT
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Is anyone getting this?  Our mailer is acting weird.

It was bound to happen....
 
The Systems area of my bank finally "discovered" some of the goodies on
my computer that I'd pulled off the net.  Since they had no concept of
what the net is and they couldn't understand the concept behind it, they
were afraid.  The end result was that last night (after I had gone home)
the little sh*ts sneaked over to my office and deleted every piece of
software they didn't recognize.  Fortunately, I had made a backup
several days ago so their efforts were wasted.  HOWEVER, I don't want
this to happen again.  Is there some way I can make all my "naughty"
files invisible to the rest of the world and still make them
somewhat accessible to me?  For a few inits, a method to make them
invisible and perhaps supress the icon at bootup would do it.  Perhaps,
I could bury the rest in an invisible folder?  Frankly, I'm not sure
what to do.  Any suggestions would be very welcome.
 
On another subject, what are the legal ramifications of this action?
I was really pissed off when I noticed.  Isn't this the same as them
going through my locked desk and searching around?  I DID have a password
scheme on my computer, but apparently they circumvented that by booting
from a floppy.
 
In exasperation,
 
Chris
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