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From: jfh@rpp386.cactus.org (John F Haugh II)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.internals
Subject: Re: Unix security additions
Message-ID: <19108@rpp386.cactus.org>
Date: 15 Mar 91 13:35:40 GMT
References: <1819@svin02.info.win.tue.nl> <1991Mar11.174711.4027@decuac.dec.com> <1991Mar12.102415.22627@kithrup.COM> <1991Mar12.185154.2423@decuac.dec.com> <3364@litchi.bbn.com>
Reply-To: jfh@rpp386.cactus.org (John F Haugh II)
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In article <3364@litchi.bbn.com> rsalz@bbn.com (Rich Salz) writes:
>In <1991Mar12.185154.2423@decuac.dec.com> mjr@hussar.dco.dec.com (Marcus J. Ranum) writes:
>>	When you get really into serious government security glop, you
>>basically have to give up networking completely.
>Not if
>	All the machines are in secure facilities; or

Not to be pedantic about this, but isn't there a requirement that all
of the machine on this mythical network be at some level of security
or another?  Putting one MS-DOS machine on an unencrypted network is
a good way to ruin an otherwise nice network.  Run a little network
sniffer, or change your IP address on the fly, or ...
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