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From: anderson@macc.wisc.edu (Jess Anderson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Keyboard Lock Software
Message-ID: <1991Jan29.165740.8487@macc.wisc.edu>
Date: 29 Jan 91 16:57:40 GMT
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Seems to me that under version 1.0, there was a program you
could run that would disable the keyboard until a password
was entered (despite an evident chicken/egg problem there :-).
This widgie let you go away for a while without either logging
out or leaving a kind of gaping security hole.  Does anyone
know if this thing has yet been updated (I gather the old one
does not run under 2.0), or failing that, of the existence of
a comparable facility?  Thanks.

<> Because we respond to common symbols in common ways, all of
<> us are under a form of mass hypnosis.  To be aware of the
<> process is to wake a bit from the trance, to pause a moment
<> before barking at the sound of the bell.
<> -- Wiloch, "Codes and Chaos"
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