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From: jackm@agcsun.UUCP (Jack Morrison)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Re: What is best password protection available?
Message-ID: <936@agcsun.UUCP>
Date: 13 Feb 91 19:29:24 GMT
References: <1991Feb12.173456.534@ccu.umanitoba.ca>
Reply-To: jackm@agcsun.UUCP (Jack Morrison)
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Organization: Ampex VSD Golden Engineering, Golden, CO
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In article <1991Feb12.173456.534@ccu.umanitoba.ca> umsmigie@ccu.umanitoba.ca (Jason Smigiel) writes:
>	What is the best security measures a person can take to protect
>their DATA on the IBM AT from unauthorized access?  Wether it be PD or
>commercial?

Not to be facetious, but consider saving the data on floppy disk, remove the
floppy and lock it up. Physical security is usually best.

Keep in mind that if you copy the data to a hard disk to work on it, just
deleting the file after copying back to a floppy doesn't necessarily prevent 
someone from recovering the data. There are utility programs (Norton's, for
example) that overwrite the contents of a file to make sure it can't be
recovered. (In a goverment classified computing facility, I remember being
required to overwrite disks 3 times before it was considered safe.)

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