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From: david_islander_hughes@cup.portal.com
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Subject: Re: computer security
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Date: 22 Nov 90 06:23:33 GMT
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I agree . . . This IS the best post of the MONTH!

Ahem, but as a supervisor and purchaser of several hundred thousand
bucks worth of equipment over the past few years I must wave the
management flag. . . . Computers and their hard drives ARE the
property of the company. . . If I feel that certain files have no business
on our equipment . . off they come. Period. Being a regular reader of Newsbyte
(a VERY good service and worth every penny!) I see that down in Aussie
land the computer "police" swept through a big office and found lots and
lots of illegal software copies. Now, it is not for me to judge WHO
put the copies on the HD's but I do know who will be FINED!

Finally, the analalogy about the file cabinet and not throwing out
"personal papers . . ." is defective. What if you decided to put
something smelly or dangerous in there. 

But . . . I did like the "secret" partition idea . . .